Teju Cole Quotes

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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Know
  • Hate
  • Child

• My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Me

• School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Hope
  • Differences

• I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Small
  • Like
  • Greek

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Work
  • Succeed
  • Unbelievable

• They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

  

  Arundhati Roy

• Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

  

  Christian Scott
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Alone

• I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I always teach celebrities, all my life.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Life

• Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Christmas

• Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Athirst

• The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

  

  Eva Gabor
  • Food
  • Attention
  • Restaurant

• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Attention
  • Silent
  • Adolescence

• Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Attention
  • Draws
  • Pun