Tahar Ben Jelloun We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. – Tahar Ben Jelloun Arab Quotes Generalized Quotes Intellectuals Quotes International Quotes Live Quotes Mediocrity Quotes Pit Quotes Stature Quotes Suspended Quotes Touching Quotes Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Brittany Howard People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, ‘Janis Joplin.’ I think people just make that comparison because it’s easy. But I don’t think I sound like her at all. – Brittany Howard
Nora Ephron I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I’m not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I’m just a food person. – Nora Ephron
Dale Earnhardt JrHealth I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport. – Dale Earnhardt Jr
Lynne Truss After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor. – Lynne Truss
Matt Bellamy People like Nick Cave – that ridiculous, over-the-top doom, taking it to extremes – I find it uplifting because it’s like someone else is feeling what you’re feeling and putting it into their music. Someone expressing extreme joy is just as valuable; it’s just the fact that they’re expressing their soul through music. – Matt Bellamy
Mandy Moore I’m a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it’s all a personal thing. I’m not someone who’ll say, ‘This is what I believe, and you should too!’ It’s more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me. – Mandy Moore
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