Morocco Quotes

• To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

  Edith Wharton

  Shapes, Lines, Pages

  Edith Wharton (2004). “In Morocco”, p.16, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.

  Amy Ryan

  Real, Thinking, Challenges

  "Amy Ryan Interview GREEN ZONE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

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• My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, People, Investment

  "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.

  Robert Plant

  Real, Reflection, Years

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• In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• 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

  Men, Views, People

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• Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

  Bill Murray

  Places To Go, Get Money, Wonderful

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Kings, Interesting

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• But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Robert Downey Jr interview". IndieLondon interview,

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• We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Commitment, Giving

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• Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Beautiful, Impact, Captivating

  "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.

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• I loved Morocco. It's very exotic and different from anywhere I've ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional.

  Isla Fisher

  Tea, Mountain, Different

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Real, Hippie

  "Morocco (Tangier)". www.cnn.com.

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• I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

  Just Fontaine

  Team, Years, Firsts

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• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  Oded Fehr

  Hurt, Horse, Riding

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• We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

  Moshe Sharett

  Country, Achieve, Anxious

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• Morocco: Looks better in films.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Looks, Film

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region.

  Frank Carlucci

  Kings, Qatar, Effort

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• I want to go to Morocco really bad.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Want

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• Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

  Justin Adams

  Swings, Together, Quality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

  Mario Batali

  Pockets, Spain, Croatia

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

  Mark Strong

  Friday, Children, Two

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• He [the King of Morocco] spends half his time asleep and the rest of it buried between the legs of the fairer sex.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Kings, Sex, Half

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 237, 1991.

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• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Eye, Home

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

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• The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Turkeys, Names

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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