Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!
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The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I write, the more I feel the force of the other urge, which collaborates with and completes the first one: the desire to know the Other from within him. To feel what it means to be another person. To be able to touch, if only for a moment, the blaze that burns within another human being.
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
