Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.