Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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I dress for men.
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You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.
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One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
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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.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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Make decisions even with incomplete info. You'll never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the info you have.
