Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
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Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows.
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Τὸν κρατοῦντα μαλθακῶςθεὸς πρόσωθεν εὐμενῶς προσδέρκεται.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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My motivation wasn't really to get a $95 million contract, you know?
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I realized my calling was to use the arts and ministry to help young people.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
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'Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!' he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. 'Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it.'
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What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
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Do you want to be super successful? Never appeal to people’s mercy or gratitude... Appeal only to their self-interest & see the results.
