Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Happy
  • Wanted
  • Made

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Free
  • Team

• I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • World
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • True
  • Tears

• Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

  

  Jennifer Weiner

• The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.

  

  Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
  • Justice

• Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?

  

  Anne Robinson
  • Wall
  • Mirror

• I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.

  

  David Letterman
  • Dance

• We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

  

  James Turrell
  • Live
  • Reality

• As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Song
  • Winning

• During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.

  

  Clay Matthews III
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Winning

• I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.

  

  Matt Kuchar
  • Winning
  • Golf

• I wasn't a cancer, ... It was just a point of having a deep passion for winning, and people viewed that in a different manner or whatnot. That's in the past.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Past
  • Passion
  • Winning

• My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Winning
  • Killer