Colson Whitehead Quotes
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
Jack Ma -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan -
Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
Paige VanZant -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen -
'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
G-Eazy -
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey -
When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Madhur Mittal -
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon -
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Madeleine Stowe -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
Kailash Kher -
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
Kate McKinnon -
Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
Ja Rule
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen -
I'm an R.E.M. nerd and have been since I was 14.
Adam Scott -
'No boy is worth your teenage years!.' 'For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start.'
Hayley Williams Paramore -
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
Nicholas A. Christakis -
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
Philip Roth -
I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.
Colson Whitehead