Teju Cole Quotes

I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

Teju Cole

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Break
  • Now
  • Modern

• The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Job
  • Red
  • Favourite

• I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Coast
  • Gulf
  • Louisiana

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Fortune

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Know
  • Explain

• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Honor

• Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Country
  • Day

• It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Never
  • Old

• I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Reader
  • Throw
  • Voracious

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Up
  • Father

• The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Remember
  • True
  • Powerful

• Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • World
  • History
  • Freedom

• I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm not hopeful about America, and I'm not hopeful about the world, no. Life goes on and, for those of us who are lucky, there's a great deal to enjoy in it. But will things get better for most people? I don't know. I don't see the evidence.

  

  Teju Cole
  • World
  • Enjoy
  • Lucky