Teju Cole Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.
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Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.
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I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
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Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.
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The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.
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Writing 'The Spirit' is really fun.
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Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting.
