Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
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As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
