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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I have loads of underwear, but only wear the bras because I never wear knickers.
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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager and yes, I wore a little eyeliner.
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
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I was sort of a miserable teenager.
Colson Whitehead
