Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

A simple "I'm proud of you" does wonders. It's something that we don't get to hear a lot, and probably what we need the most.

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• Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Why
  • War
  • Cold

• I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Why
  • Success
  • Day

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Happy

• Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Good
  • Long
  • Peace

• Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • House
  • Saying
  • Depressed

• You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Care
  • Honor
  • Contempt

• Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Kids
  • Taken
  • Failure

• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Rather
  • Million

• Grace can and does have a history.

  

  Karl Rahner
  • History
  • Grace
  • Does

• I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
  • Up
  • Fan
  • Lakers

• T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Work
  • Question

• The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.

  

  Walter Salles
  • You
  • Problems
  • Try

• There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Nice
  • Kind

• One of the difficulties of a job in the, quote, 'real world' is you don't really get time to shut yourself off in a room and think.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Way
  • Things
  • Child

• I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Traditionalist

• Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• An army marches on its stomach.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Army
  • Stomach

• When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Up

• Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Great Man
  • Great woman
  • Great behind

• Personally, I don't see myself as a sex symbol, but when people say that I get very proud, because I think people's sexuality is something very important.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Important
  • Proud
  • Sex symbol

• Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• A simple "I'm proud of you" does wonders. It's something that we don't get to hear a lot, and probably what we need the most.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Proud
  • Need
  • Wonders