Teju Cole Quotes

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Teju Cole

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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.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• 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.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Food
  • Fall
  • Sick

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• Goodness Gracious The Paper! Where the Cash at? Where the Stash at?

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• 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.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study

• I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden

• It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• 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.

  

  James Carville
  • Today
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Real
  • Confused

• Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.

  

  Christy Turlington

• As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

  

  Carol Kane

• TechStars is mentorship-driven.

  

  David Cohen

• I've had paranoid panic attacks.

  

  Katherine Heigl

• I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

  

  Esai Morales
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Actor

• Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Important
  • Women
  • American

• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  

  Samantha Power
  • School
  • Hope
  • Support

• Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Art
  • Photography

• One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Photography
  • Difficulty
  • Explicit