Teju Cole Quotes

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Is global warming causing more extreme weather events of greater intensity, and is it causing sea levels to rise? The answer to both is an emphatic 'no.'

Jim Inhofe

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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

John Grant

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If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

Jeannette Rankin

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I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

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My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

Traian Basescu

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In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.

RM

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I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.

Ruben Studdard

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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

Mary Gaitskill

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I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Sawyer

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Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.

Drew Carey

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Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.

Donna Brazile

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