Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenPowerMenPeopleViewPoor

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

Max Cannon

WaitYearWantMoreTwoYears

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

John Shelby Spong

LifePeopleNegativeDieDownReal

I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.

Mike Posner

FunnySongThoughtYouMoreOut

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

Luis Gutierrez

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Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

Julia Hartz

LeadershipGreatCultureBuilding

We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

Jon Porter

MyselfBalancePainChildParent

'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Chris Carter

GoodStyleBeginningPilotFirst

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Colin Quinn

FunnyGoodPeopleThinkFeelYou

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

LoveJoyKnowWillNeverAbove

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

Auli'i Cravalho

SingingSpeakThinkInterestingYou

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

Pete Docter

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The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.

Murray Rothbard

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