Teju Cole Quotes
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.Teju Cole
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I enjoy building more than managing.
Wayne Huizenga -
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham Lincoln -
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
Walt Mossberg -
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien -
'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
Warren Littlefield -
I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
Irina Shayk -
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Sam Smith -
Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
Halima Aden
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
Adam Driver -
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
Action Bronson -
Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
Carl Sagan -
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
Harper Lee -
I have always said about Tony Benn that he immatures with age.
Harold Wilson
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
P. G. Wodehouse -
We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army.
Jim Talent -
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
Jason Winston George -
I like the idea of R-rated franchises.
David Fincher -
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.
Donna Leon -
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
Teju Cole