Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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We need to let our people speak. We need to debate those issues and then we let the best ideas win, ... Right now, we believe the American people stand behind us. They want to see us preserve Social Security, they want us to keep the budget balanced and we're going to do our level best to do it.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
