Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Success
  • Best
  • Color

• I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

  

  Usher
  • Passion
  • Baby
  • Pregnancy

• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Hurt

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Selfish

• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Character
  • Care

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Kindness

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Time
  • Friends

• When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Movie

• I don't want to be too power-hungry.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Power

• I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe

• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Money

• Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Men
  • Women

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Cheer

• I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Up
  • Food

• I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.

  

  Chuck Feeney
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Live

• That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.

  

  David Kirschner
  • Giving
  • Actor
  • Excited

• Everyone tells me it's very healthy. It's very depressing, but it's very healthy. We always have this bubbling level of vitriol.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Healthy
  • Depressing
  • Bubbling

• The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

  

  Confucius
  • State
  • Forces
  • Commander

• If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Giving
  • Raise