Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • True
  • Goal

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learning

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • Space
  • Volunteer

• Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Always
  • Gym

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Humility
  • Clever
  • Size

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• Everybody I run into goes, 'Hey, 'Best in Show!'' Or, 'Hey, that dog movie!' which I don't mind because I'm not too good on titles.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Movie

• I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Practice

• Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Music Is
  • Ocean Of Clouds

• Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Child

• I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Writing
  • Office
  • Ready

• I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writing
  • Views
  • Liked