Colson Whitehead Quotes

Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.

Colson Whitehead

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PeopleMovingProblemYouWrite

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

Andrew Breitbart

I AmPeopleThinkPartisanAm

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Maya Angelou

MusicDancePeopleSwimmingFriends

What people want is a seamless Web experience.

John McKinley

ExperiencePeopleWantWebSeamless

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Robert Henri

GrowthFreeGeniusManifestPlay

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Mike Pence

PowerTimeGovernmentFreeBelieve

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael LeBoeuf

LifeTimeMoneyYouLostOut

When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Chris Kyle

DreamsPatriotismMilitaryRidingUp

The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.

Brett Young

MusicYouWantMatterNeedGoing

Kindness is wisdom.

Philip James Bailey

KindnessWisdom

I spoke English at school and Spanish at home, and I'm always eating Dominican food, listening to Dominican music.

Prince Royce

HomeMusicFoodSchoolListening

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

Peter Matthiessen

FictionNonfictionUsedSuperiority

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in the number of people who have to collaborate because of the gigantic size of the instruments used, but also because of the enormous task that is data analysis.

Peter Higgs

PeopleSpeakDataPhysicsI Can

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