Teju Cole Quotes
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I did a few DJ gigs at empty clubs, sort of as a warm-up set before Flume was a thing. I did one when I got big enough, and I had five friends come down, and they were the only ones dancing. That was one of my earliest ones. I was super nervous.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
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I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
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I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.
