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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If the world isn’t talking, if we are not finding a solution, then there are going to be economies completely destroyed.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
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Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.
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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.
