Teju Cole Quotes
Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I don't want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this.
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Halp! My powerful brain is blowed itself up!
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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The Pobble who has no toesHad once as many as we;When they said, 'Some day you may lose them all;'-He replied, - 'Fish fiddle de-dee!'
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
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What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.
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I still have drive, but everything is relative.
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I have a real survivor's instinct.
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In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
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I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.
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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
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Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
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I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
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Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.
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We're entertainers, not just singers!
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Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
