Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
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• I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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  • Revolutionary
  • Even

• There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Heart
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• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
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  • Critics

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Love
  • Fans
  • Nothing

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Earth
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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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  • Easier

• Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nothing
  • Will
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• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Love
  • Sex
  • For Her

• No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Forever
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  • Microphone

• There's that area, right there, where you can be too hard on yourself or you need to be really hard on yourself - I'm trying to ride that line by telling myself that I can always write better, sing better, what can we do to make the show more interesting? Pretend that you're the guy who's been in the front row for the last five shows; what would make it new for you?

  

  Cody Johnson
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• I'm not like most people around here who politick with you guys.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Politics
  • Guys

• What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Remember
  • Liberty
  • Constitution

• I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Feels
  • Strange
  • Talking

• Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Forever
  • Nothing
  • Lasts