Teju Cole Quotes
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.
Quotes to Explore
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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I am healthy and happy.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
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I believe that collaboration is one of the most important things in any field.
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I haven't had anything said to my face. ... I don't know what goes on behind closed doors. I did understand it was out there. That's one of the reasons I like my partnership with Secret and calling the NFL: It's a chance to break through some barriers by showing what you can do, as opposed to telling people what you can do. That's the approach I prefer to take: Let me prove to you that a woman is capable of doing this. Then, hopefully, you won't have to ask that question ever again.
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Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.
