Teju Cole Quotes

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself as an observer of the world who has a strong drive to testify, which I can do because I have the privilege of living in New York with enough food to eat and shelter.

Teju Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGoodMyselfFoodStruggle

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

Joaquin Phoenix

WorkMusicPeopleOutThingsThose

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Jocko Willink

PerseveranceSuccessVictoryKeyAny

I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

Jessica Raine

DeathYouBirthCountrysideAware

I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.

Jeremy Scott

LoveHappyBackFirstHerAgain

The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Ang Lee

FearActuallyBringsFactor

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

Stephen Kinzer

PassionWarConflictWorldClassic

It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

WarInfluenceGoElectionsCheaper

Cooking can cure almost anything.

Michelle Dockery

CookingAnythingAlmostCure

When I come to spar, I definitely come to spar; I definitely come to fight.

Deontay Wilder

FightComeDefinitely

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

Colleen Haskell

JobMeMovingDrivingCountryGoing

YouTube is, like, the new reality television.

Connor Franta

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I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

Bow Wow

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