Amin Maalouf Quotes

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Amin Maalouf

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 25, 1949

Topics

LiveRelationshipWorldRealityFeel

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

BestPeopleWayTurnOutThings

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

Rose Namajunas

GrowFarmerSaidAlwaysKindergarten

Russia continues to side with... rogue states and terrorist organizations, following Vladimir Putin's pattern of gratuitous and unpunished affronts to U.S. interests.

Mike Pompeo

RussiaSideRoguePatternFollowing

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Michael Vick

LifeFamilyHomeMyselfFootball

In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.

Michelle Alexander

PeopleBlackCountryCrimePermanent

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

Moby

HomeMusicMeGoMy OwnOut

We're all amateur investigators. We scan bookshelves, we ogle trinkets left out in the open, we calculate the cost of furniture and study the photographs on display; sometimes we even check out the medicine cabinet.

Lisa Lutz

MedicineFurnitureSometimesStudy

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

Lisa Murkowski

MarriageWomanManSupportAmendment

Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.

Jon Batiste

MusicCultureBetter PersonBetter

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

Debby Ryan

NatureMy OwnNeedOwnThingsSome

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.

Antonio Banderas

ManPeopleLawInterestingRemember

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom

AgeImportantProtectReasonMost

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