Colson Whitehead Quotes
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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'Is he dangerous?'Anyone who lies for a living is dangerous.'
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The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
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I believe in helping people who are down.
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The moon came white and ghostly as we laid the treasure down,There was gear there’d make a beggarman as rich as Lima Town,Copper charms and silver trinkets from the chests of Spanish crews,Gold doubloons and double moidores, louis d’ors and portagues
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tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.
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You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.
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Even people that are evil believe what they're doing is good. I don't agree with those people, but it's about understanding that there are those kinds of points of view.
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Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
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Some books are well-received with critics; other books sell.
Colson Whitehead
