Colson Whitehead Quotes
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.Colson Whitehead
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
Jack McBrayer -
I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs -
If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
Walker Stapleton -
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
Hannibal Buress -
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
Barry Jenkins
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
Daniel Everett -
We always trend set.
Quavo Migos -
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
Padgett Powell -
I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl -
We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
Dan Gilbert -
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
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It's a sin to be tired.
Kate Moss -
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
Candace Bushnell -
Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Fidel Castro -
I love girl power.
Pam Bondi -
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht -
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
Peter Dinklage -
It's going to be so obvious when something isn't well made for VR. People are going to use the best VR content. That's the stuff that's going to get shown to people. That's the stuff that's going to get demoed. That's most of what people are going to buy.
Palmer Luckey -
I am a hopeless optimist.
Jodi Balfour -
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
Xi Jinping -
Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.
John Ridley -
Schools don't teach American history that well, especially a lot of black American history.
Colson Whitehead