Teju Cole Quotes

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

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• I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Family
  • Home
  • Together

• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Time
  • Real
  • Family

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Hair
  • Incredible

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Crying
  • London
  • Through

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Done
  • Car
  • Boy

• I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • First
  • More
  • Generation

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Difficult
  • Without
  • Scale

• I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Really
  • Admit
  • Hubble

• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas.

  

  George Stapledon
  • Country
  • Spirit
  • Inspiration

• If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  

  Karen Black
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Wish
  • Environment

• I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Gay

• A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Said
  • Mindless