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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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 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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'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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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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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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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.
