Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.Tahar Ben Jelloun
Quotes to Explore
-
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
Dan Pink -
I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
Kat Dahlia -
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Walter Lippmann -
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant -
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
Cara Castronuova
-
It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
Magnus Carlsen -
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal -
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
Ira Glass -
I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
Banks -
There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
Adam Driver -
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Edmund H. North
-
I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
Lapo Elkann -
Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
Tamara Ecclestone -
The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
Dan Shechtman -
We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
Viktor Orban -
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
Gary Johnson -
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
Carlos Slim
-
Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley -
Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
David Jeremiah -
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.
Kathy Reichs -
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Jean de la Bruyere -
This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
John Doolittle -
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun