Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorldPosingStopEqualWestMust

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

Andrew Stanton

LifeMyselfManMy LifeRobotsSkin

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Maya Lin

FamilyLettersLittleChinaGet

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

Jeff Lemire

GodReflectionActingCreateRobots

There is such a very large quantity of books clamouring for a buyer's attention that publishers have relied more and more on support such as blurbs as a way of getting an independent recommendation from a familiar name, much in the same way that Amazon.com will send an e-mail recommending Book A to a customer who's already purchased Book B.

Sonny Mehta

SupportBookNameCustomerAttention

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

Mike McCready

WorkMeThinkFeelFriendsPlay

The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.

Coretta Scott King

FutureDemocracyVotingImportant

What in the world is a hangover cure?

Brian Wilson

WorldHangoverCure

It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.

Arca

LifeGirlDayMeWake UpMy Life

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Arturo Toscanini

MusicGodMeStandYouWay

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

Pico Iyer

LoveHappinessMeSayWantNeed

That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'

Phil Lord

ThoughtBadLordHereMightLies

There's nothing like the camaraderie of being around the other players.

Scottie Pippen

NothingBeingPlayersCamaraderie

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