Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
Quentin Tarantino
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My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!
Mallory Jansen
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
Yogi Berra
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
R. L. Stine
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
Jack Keane
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
K. Flay
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
Walt Mossberg
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
Tamron Hall
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There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
Dan Scanlon
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
Saina Nehwal
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
Ian Harding
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Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?
M. K. Hobson
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
Kourtney Kardashian
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William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
Jennifer Haigh
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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
