Abdelkebir Khatibi Quotes

He directed her attention to another question: "When I speak to you in your language, what happens to mine? Does my language continue to speak, but in silence?

Abdelkebir Khatibi

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Think
  • Angry
  • Start

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Important
  • Done
  • Think

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Really
  • Elements
  • Filming

• I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • Community
  • Gay

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Humor
  • Numbers

• The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Family
  • May
  • Business

• I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Team
  • Football

• When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Career
  • Being Pregnant

• With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Peace
  • Risks
  • Taking Risks

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • World
  • Important
  • Thought

• A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Reading
  • Son

• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• Christina Hendricks is still one of my favorite people to dress because she has this old Hollywood, vintage quality to how she likes to get ready.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • People
  • She
  • Quality

• Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

  

  Paul Tournier
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• He directed her attention to another question: "When I speak to you in your language, what happens to mine? Does my language continue to speak, but in silence?

  

  Abdelkebir Khatibi
  • Attention
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  • Language