Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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Even the ears must dance.
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It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.
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It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
