Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Dinaw Mengestu

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The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim

ChangeWaterPeopleClimate Change

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

GoodProcessNothingWillNever

There's two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she's an American girl. On the men's side, there's an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he's 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.

Andy Murray

FutureGirlMenPeopleWorldGo

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

Jeff Kinney

LifeLiveIdentityMeMy LifeStill

Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail.

Mary Pilon

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I'm tired of talking about where we've been. I'm more interested in talking about where we're going.

Michael Tubbs

TiredTalkingMoreWhereGoingBeen

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Michael Leunig

TruthSometimesBehind

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

Dennis Rodman

ProblemYouAnswerYour

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

Chelan Simmons

TimeMoviesHorrorFirst TimeFirst

I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.

Chuck Todd

HopeDayFootballWifeCollegeTalk

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

Alma Guillermoprieto

LoveFoodCookingFunEverything

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Shannon Miller

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