Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
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The thing was, Colton was confident and self-assured, maybe even a little cocky, but he wasn't arrogant. He was like a unicorn.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
She always thought Americans were too territorial. 'All those fences and flags,' she had once said, seeing very little difference between the two.
— Dinaw Mengestu
We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
— Dinaw Mengestu
I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
— Dinaw Mengestu
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
— Bill Hader
Ghosts are common to the life of any child:mine just happened to come to dinner more often than most
— Dinaw Mengestu
Michele Bachmann ... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it ... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!
— Herman Cain
I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.
— Dinaw Mengestu
I couldn't be more American if I tried. I was born in Ethiopia, but I was raised and educated as an American.
— Dinaw Mengestu
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
— Timothy Keller
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington
Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.
— Dinaw Mengestu
That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.
— Mick Fleetwood
At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.
— Gregory Maguire
In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.
— Dinaw Mengestu
There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
— Dinaw Mengestu
I can do all things in Him who strengthens me" (or, "I am ready for anything through the strength of the One who lives within me").
— John Charles Pollock
I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
— Ned Vizzini