Helen Oyeyemi Quotes

Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

Helen Oyeyemi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 10, 1984

Topics

TimeWeirdFeelMomentsSometimes

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Jocko Willink

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A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

Andre Ward

Too MuchPlateMuchLotTooBoxers

Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.

Robert Griffin III

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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

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I'll try anything, but the pig testicles in Taiwan were a little much. Eh, it wasn't half bad. There was this one dish I had there, the translation is, 'The Monk Jumps over the Fence.' It's a fish dish with all these spices. It was beautiful, man - it was poetry. It had a whole story.

Steven Adams

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Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

Steven Crowder

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When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Rodney Crowell

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For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

Mona Eltahawy

LifeMemoriesVacationMy LifeNever

I grew up on courtroom dramas, and I really love the feel of a dramatic thriller.

Luke Roberts

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I always order soup, dessert, and a sandwich or whatever main course. But then the idea is you have to eat such a small portion of it and bring the rest home.

Lisa Lampanelli

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When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

Don Lemon

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I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

Dolph Ziggler

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