Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

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• I don't care if I never see Texas again.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Never
  • Care
  • Texas

• I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Love
  • Stars
  • Dancing

• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Speech

• I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Important
  • Done
  • Think

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Bisexual

• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tradition
  • Anonymous
  • Ruined

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Home
  • Emotional
  • Dreams

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Country
  • Heart

• I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Learn
  • Inspiration

• A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Moving

• My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Remember
  • Giving
  • Mom

• Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

  

  Li Lu
  • Honesty

• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Death
  • Day