Colson Whitehead Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.
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Look at our farmers' markets today, bursting with heritage breeds and heirloom varieties, foods that were once abundant when we were an agricultural nation, but that we have lost touch with. Bringing all these back helps us connect to our roots, our communities and helps us feed America the proper way.
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I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent.
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When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter... It's what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
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They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
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I was sort of a miserable teenager.
Colson Whitehead
