Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy - the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the USA.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.
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Real Learning comes from failures and mistakes...rarely from success.
