Teju Cole Quotes
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?
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I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.
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I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
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As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.
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TechStars is mentorship-driven.
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I've had paranoid panic attacks.
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It is only after you are able to stand on your own feet, or have the confidence that you can stand on your own feet, should you look at doing things such as marriage or setting up a family.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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I am not one of those people who lives for work. I enjoy sculpting and photography and tennis and swimming. I simply do not have enough time. My life is not in control.
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
