Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe in, is at the end of the day of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe in, is at the end of the day of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.
