Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I try to do my best.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.
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Armageddon is not a foreign policy.
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'If we are focused on making money only, a large slice of life will pass us by.'
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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The mountains dwindled away into hills covered with a dark, stunted scrub. Beyond them the land flattened out to the horizon, a treeless immensity of white and gray-green, a spongy mossiness flecked with a million icy ponds. The wind blew, sometimes hard, sometimes harder.
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'The Goddesses'? I don't believe the term is good enough, but when you're bound by these terrestrial descriptions, you must use the best choice available.
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I'd love to work across all three fields - theatre, film and TV.
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I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
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Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
