Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
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Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success in Iraq will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women. And that's a great tragedy.
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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.
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He Goya has selected from amongst the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual..
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
