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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Pat Metheny
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
Nathan Lane
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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
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R. L. Stine
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Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Anna Sewell
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
Victor Cruz
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I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.
Jamie Dimon
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Jimmy Connors
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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