Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CourageKeep GoingVoiceSituation

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

John C. Crosby

LawAdvertisingFirstConcreteAvoid

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

Jeb Hensarling

GrowthDirectionHurtWishListen

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Jean Rostand

ThoughtsReflectDisturb

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

BusinessSchoolWarmYouBodyNeed

I'm kind of a boring person. People think I get to travel the world and I rap or whatever, but I'm pretty boring. My life is pretty crazy enough, and when I'm not on the road or doing something, I'm kind of boring.

Trip Lee

LifeTravelPeopleCrazyWorldRoad

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

Tommy Shaw

WorkGoodMeHellFindingTrouble

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

Ming-Na Wen

WorkFamilyLoveGreatJobMom

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Liza Minnelli

MotherTimeMeLaughTalkingDown

Bras should be comfortable. I hate when you have all those bras with all that wiring that poke into your ribs, and you take it off at the end of the day, and it feels good. It shouldn't feel good to take off your bra at the end of the day. It should be something that feels good throughout the day.

Jazz Jennings

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Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Josette Sheeran

WomenChildrenFaceHungerWellToo

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

Jasmine Tookes

MomFashionCelebrityAlwaysUpSet

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

Jonathan Turley

PowerPeopleLibertyUnderstandSeem

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