Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
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We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
