Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KnowledgeWorldLookDesireHealthy

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

Jimmy Cliff

DreamsWalkDayTogetherTravel

I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.

Matt Cain

ThinkYouBadDoneThingsGet

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

Soren Skou

BusinessProblemsYouWillIdea

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

Tom Stoppard

RespectMyselfSayMoreTopHead

If you care about a subject, there's a podcast for it.

Michelle Dean

CareYouSubjectAbout

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

Martina Navratilova

SportsYouBodyI CanKnowTennis

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

FearPassionContagious

I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?

Loni Love

WomanThinkComedyDoingYouJokes

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.

Jonathan Sacks

TimeCelebrateStoryYearFindWay

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

MusicYouPersonYoungMeetWithin

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

YoungOldHeadShouldersHates

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

Donald McCaig

FamilyGodSpeakKnowNothingWhere

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