Tahar Ben Jelloun Quotes

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeChange The WorldPoetryWorld

If I've got something do. I'm going to attack it. I'm going to attack that stress.

Jocko Willink

StressSomethingGotGoingAttack

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

John Cameron

MoreLongevityNeedImproveOur

And when we go from braking to accelerating to cornering, the G-forces we pull are really demanding on our bodies. We definitely have to be in top shape.

Michael Andretti

GoTopShapePullOurDemanding

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Michael Caine

PeopleMeVillainAmericanLookUp

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Robert E. Lee

CharacterFoundationLegalAuthority

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

Ron Fournier

FailureBrokenPoliticalHouseWhite

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

Ruby Wax

JobLuckyNine-To-Five

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

Jay Weatherill

FocusQualityStrongerI CanWould

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

Donald Judd

MoreUnitedLikeUnited StatesThan

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

Chloe Sevigny

MyselfSettleWayNestRealRoom

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Chris Barber

LifeMusicAmericaSelf-Absorbed

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

Claudia Black

MountainStormMeBlackLessonDown

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