Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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Brainwashed from rock and rap.
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I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.
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I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
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Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.
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Damned indecision and cursed pride.
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I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
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There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
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Won't you help to sing, These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever had, Redemption songs.
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If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
