Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Disciple

• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Doubt

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Crazy
  • Driven
  • Schedule

• People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Today

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Say

• Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Moving

• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Moving

• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• You can't rush inspiration.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Inspiration