Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
-
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
-
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
-
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
-
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
-
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
-
I was raised doing martial arts.
-
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
-
The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
-
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
-
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
-
I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
-
Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
-
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
-
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
-
I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
-
We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used against Howard Dean as a peace candidate who was doing well. So, in many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake Left while it moves Right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist.
-
Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
-
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
-
Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.
-
There are very few great poets in the world.
