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.
Oliver Cromwell -
I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
Victoria Pratt -
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim -
When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
Randy Johnson -
I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
LaToya Jackson
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There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert -
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg -
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
Ed McMahon -
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.
Quincy Jones -
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.
Vanessa Lachey -
I played point guard my whole life.
Zach LaVine
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
Naomi Klein -
In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. van Vogt -
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.
Harold H. Greene -
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.
Adam Peaty -
You can never be too rich or too thin.
Wallis Simpson -
I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
Yuri Kochiyama
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We are a country that met successes in the fight against terrorism.
Charles Michel -
'Righteous Abel,' says Matthew 23:34-45. What luck! So there is a righteous race! No such thing: Abel dies leaving no children, a fact full of meaning. He is unable to transmit his righteousness.
Jacques Ellul -
I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.
Busy Philipps -
I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'
Kevin Macdonald -
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener -
I was sort of a miserable teenager.
Colson Whitehead