Teju Cole Quotes

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: June 27, 1975

Topics

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My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Jerry Goldsmith

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The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

John Berger

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Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

John Gregory Dunne

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When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

Melissa Joan Hart

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Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.

John Lewis

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When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

Andy Serkis

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There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

Stephen Rodrick

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You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

Steven Hatfill

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Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Mike Tyson

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I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

Jon M. Chu

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