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?

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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 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

• 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

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Trying
  • Leadership

• When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • Friendships

• When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop.

  

  Ann Dowd
  • Pet

• If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Nice
  • Two

• 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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