Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
  • Man
  • Black

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • I Can
  • Socialism
  • Communism

• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Lady

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• Great books are rare.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Great
  • Books
  • Rare

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Folly

• I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Know
  • Give

• I started doing stand-up in college.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Up
  • College
  • Doing

• When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Writing
  • Country
  • English

• In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Money
  • Easy
  • Economists

• I make the money, and I don't have to take the abuse some of the stars do, opening up their personal life. I can go into a restaurant, sit down, and have a nice meal without being harassed. Arnold Schwarzenegger can't do that.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Money
  • Reform
  • Public Education

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Clothes

• You can make excuses and you can make money, but you cannot make both.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Excuses