Teju Cole Quotes
Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
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I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages that are necessary to run a successful business.
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I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.
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When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.
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A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
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Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
