Colson Whitehead Quotes

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

  

  Nas
  • Version
  • Owning
  • Creatively

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Men
  • Know
  • Understand

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • Try

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• I'm not big on remakes.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Big

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

  

  Max Stirner
  • People

• The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Job

• I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• To the extent residency preferences prevent families and senior citizens from purchasing homes because of race, ethnicity or color, the preferences violate federal law and cannot be tolerated.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Law
  • Color
  • Senior

• I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Why
  • True

• I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Science
  • Inspired