Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

  

  Oliver North
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Divided

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Movement
  • Baltimore

• As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Politics

• AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Great
  • End

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Character
  • Unusual
  • Inventing

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• I used to work at this store, and I got fired when I actually booked the job on 'Glee' because I had to go film 'Glee.' I was a dancer on 'Glee.' My manager was like, 'Umm this isn't gonna work, so you can come get your last check this week.'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Work
  • Job
  • Week

• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Write
  • Silly

• A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

  

  Mary Harris Jones
  • Freedom

• The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

  

  Stephen Graham
  • Experience
  • See
  • Carry

• 'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Taken
  • Difficult
  • Surprise

• The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Economy