Teju Cole Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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I can't believe this is happening I can't believe all these people are sniffing each other & backing away teeth grinning hair raised, growling, here in the slaughtered wind
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Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred - the human law in himself, his own individual will.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
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When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
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You can't talk about what you haven't felt.
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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
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It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
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My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.
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I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.
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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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Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
