Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion.
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I've always thought I was talented.
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When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
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The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.
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I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.
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When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.
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I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.
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I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.
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My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
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Daniel Bryan had the 'Yes' Movement. That was phenomenal.
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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.
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Well, the real sex organ is between the ears, not between the legs.
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Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.
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Failure is the mechanism of learning.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
