Colson Whitehead Quotes
Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.Colson Whitehead
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.
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I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Out first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.
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It's an individual sport, but collectively everybody shares the same motto that Ironman stands for: anything is possible.
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My drug of choice is historical research.
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Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
Colson Whitehead
