Teju Cole Quotes
I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
