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Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Death People Doors Solution

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

Life Change Moment My Life Go First

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

Brain New Us Exciting Neuroscience

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Yourself Writing Gift Story Giving

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

Steven Spielberg

Clouds Think Credit Too Much Head

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Good Business Lie Think Trying You

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Education Today Science Research Get

I'm a hopeful cynic.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

Government Rich American Giving Year

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

Life Funny You Go Away Something

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

Monica Bellucci

Work Beauty Youth Evil You Born

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

Path Limits Literature Nobody Why

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Step Only Fanaticism Barbarism

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