Teju Cole Quotes
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.Teju Cole
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt -
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
Maelle Gavet -
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
Magic Johnson -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz -
You don't get second chances in the real world.
Gail Simmons
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
Vicki Lawrence -
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
Ziyi Zhang -
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
Karl Jaspers -
It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.
Rita Ora -
My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.
Carl Kasell
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No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
Charles Lindbergh -
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.
James Randi -
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
Christopher Lee -
Healing is a moral thing to do.
Jay Inslee -
When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.
Chris Robinson The Black Crowes -
I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.
Charles Kennedy
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
Mariella Frostrup -
Paul McCartney and John Lennon would often write a song a day, so I have the same workmanlike philosophy.
Jason Mraz -
I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.
Little Simz -
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
Barack Obama -
Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.
Teju Cole