Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
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The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.
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I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.
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The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
