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

• 'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Fire

• 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

• Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Life
  • Children

• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • School
  • Why

• According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sin
  • Wealth
  • Works

• I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Small

• The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Watch
  • Photographer
  • Stops

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

  

  Teju Cole
  • Photography
  • Difficulty
  • Explicit