Teju Cole Quotes

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

Teju Cole

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• I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Image
  • Daddy

• I try to do as much as I can, but I simply can't shoot two films at a time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Try
  • I Can

• Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamentals.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Football
  • Trust

• All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Moral
  • Obligation

• What's right for most people in most situations isn't right for everyone in every situation. Real morality lies in following one's own heart.

  

  Embeth Davidtz
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• My time particles play with eternity.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Time
  • Eternity
  • Particle

• The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • School
  • Principals
  • D-average

• You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go.

  

  Confucius
  • Way
  • Turns
  • Handle

• No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Painting
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety

• Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Rock
  • Fight
  • Menopause

• Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction of the state of Israel and that you're involved in some actual or potential violent attack. But actually, you could say: "Not on this basis".

  

  Judith Butler
  • Destruction
  • Israel
  • Attack

• Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Words
  • Hate
  • Theory

• We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Up
  • Pedestal
  • Laundry room

• So many of my friends have 200,000 subscribers, and they make around five to six K a month, which is completely cool.

  

  Michelle Phan
  • Friends
  • Around
  • Month

• Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

  

  Teju Cole
  • Score
  • Anxious