Teju Cole Quotes

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Jim Sensenbrenner

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When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

Joe Alwyn

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I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

Matt Rosendale

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I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.

Aneurin Barnard

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The United Nations was founded 70 years ago, at the end of World War II. Since that time, Japan has steadfastly walked the path of peace and rebuilt a nation. And, since the mid-1950s onward, we have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.

Shinzo Abe

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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mary McLeod Bethune

KnowledgeNeedPrimeHour

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Martina Navratilova

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I didn't want to just be an artist and let someone else have all that control over me. I knew I would have to produce.

Missy Elliott

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Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?

Juan Williams

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People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

Bob Black

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Focus on eating real, whole, natural foods. As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you can eat it!

Suzanne Somers

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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

Marianne Faithfull

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