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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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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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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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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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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In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.
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If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.
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With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
