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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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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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'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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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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Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.
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My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.
