Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WarWorldEndPettyEverything

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

Joe Arpaio

MeHurtYearsControversyWellHey

You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

Jennifer Grey

MeThinkYouKnowFirstPretty

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Quick

HealthSocietyStoryProblemTell

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself.

Tom Watson

FearMyselfPersonTwoLastMost

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

RevolutionBattleAmericanPhilosophy

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

Louis Finkelstein

GodChildrenPeopleParentDespair

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.

Jason Clarke

StepMindSmallSheepSmall Town

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

Donna Lynne Champlin

RespectCreativePeopleSucceedOwn

I am not that smart.

Bob Parsons

SmartI AmAm

To be No. 1 is something I've dreamed of as a kid.

Brooks Koepka

KidSomethingDreamed

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

FunnyWomenWifeJealousThinking

Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

Annalee Newitz

BookFateMeetingRadioComic Book

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