Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.
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We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in.
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Cape Town is beautiful. It's an extraordinary beach town with mountain ranges on either side.
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are.
