Taiye Selasi Quotes

The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

Taiye Selasi

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What we did was make it easier for people to subscribe to and expand Obamacare.

Joe Garcia

PeopleExpandEasierDidSubscribe

I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

John Lloyd Young

CollegeKeyFriendsGoShowerUsed

I always tell people I'm not one of these guys that was, like, born with, like, a halfway decent body.

Max Greenfield

PeopleBodyBornAlwaysTellDecent

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

Matt Dillon

MeBelieveBehaviorYouPowerful

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

John Sculley

TechnologyPersonaliPhoneContent

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

Stephen Hawking

SpaceSurviveThinkWillRaceHuman

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot.

Ron Suskind

PoliticalKnowMoveFactMostLot

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

Milan Kundera

MusicPeopleDeafGoingBecause

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Judy Gold

LiveMyselfTrue

I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.

Josh Henderson

FamilyMyselfI AmThinkFriends

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

Djuna Barnes

GoodPlaceEveryoneLittleWell

The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.

Deval Patrick

BirthdayFatherSchoolMeLawYear

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