"I love taking things out of context and……" — Helen Oyeyemi
"I love taking things out of context and playing with them and chopping up rules."
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35 Quotes by Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi has 35 quotes on this site.
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This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows.…
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Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to…
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The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your…
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Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
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You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
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Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that…
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Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be…
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So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest…
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I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.
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That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
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Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?
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Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and…
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More Chopping Quotes
This quote is filed under Chopping Quotes,
one of 64 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one…
— Henry David Thoreau
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When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better…
— Colin Mochrie
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid,…
— Sally Struthers
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Listen up. Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of…
— Toni Morrison
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Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block…
— Pete Rose
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When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a…
— Craig Claiborne
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After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward…
— Stephen M. Irwin
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Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.
— George Washington
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As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard.…
— David Ogilvy
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It…
— Helen Garner
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I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please;…
— Dr. Seuss
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