Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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Values are more important than money.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I am a journalist.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.
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Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you
