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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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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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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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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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
