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

• Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Bad

• 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

• My mother, Ms. Nippy Carville, was a woman of many talents.

  

  James Carville
  • Mother

• 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

• You can't run from Earth, but you can try to get through the day.

  

  Amanda Warren
  • Earth

• Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Confidence
  • Ability
  • Writer

• My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.

  

  Jane Yolen
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Nature

• If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Life
  • Father
  • Wisdom

• Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

  

  Richard Trumka
  • Friends
  • Happening
  • Corporations

• 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