Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.
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Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.
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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.
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During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.
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I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.
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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
