Colson Whitehead Quotes

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

Colson Whitehead

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I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Johan Cruyff

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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

John David Washington

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We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.

May-Britt Moser

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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Anna Julia Cooper

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When Thug hears a song, he knows how the whole shape of the thing goes. He can nudge the whole frame to the left to make it offbeat and sound how he wants it to sound.

Metro Boomin

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Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

Simon Helberg

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I have 9 children; I'm a big believer in childhood education, but we've got to be smart about getting a good return on the investment of those dollars.

Matt Bevin

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The gray has gone away. I am living in bright Technicolor.

Rosie O'Donnell

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It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.

Mike Pence

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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

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People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.

Jason Bateman

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I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

Josh Homme

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