Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: December 1, 1944

Topics

TimePossibleSameSeeMorocco

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

John Lurie

LiveHeartMeWritingSickWeird

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

Jeff Merkley

PrioritiesNothingStatementsBudgets

We want a faithful Catholic businessman not to have to provide a service he finds unethical.

Jeff Fortenberry

ServiceWantFaithfulBusinessmanHe

Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

John T. Chambers

TogetherPeopleGrowYouUnderstand

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

Amy Sherald

FatherAttitudeMeDoctorYouHim

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.

John Polkinghorne

WorkWorldBelieveRealityPhysics

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

Simon Callow

QueenActorUniversityAwayNine

My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MotherYellowEatingEndWhiteShe

I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.

Mary Steenburgen

RespectBrainSkillWayNeverWrite

A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.

Mike Ross

PeopleSayWhyPeople SayBigGot

Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.

Marvin Ammori

WorkBetterSayOthersWebsites

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Jonathan Dimbleby

BetterYouPlaceDamnSomething

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