Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

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• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • You
  • First
  • Step

• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Hands
  • Starting
  • Filmmaking

• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Why
  • Society

• I watch a lot of football.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Football
  • Watch
  • Lot

• New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Lead
  • Rise
  • Employment

• 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!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Good
  • God
  • Live

• Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Hope

• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Up
  • Think
  • Past

• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Couple

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Literature

• The Jesuits…are a secret society – a sort of Masonic order – with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Society
  • Order
  • Masonic

• For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Value

• The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

  

  Ernst Rohm
  • Destiny
  • Remains
  • Germany`s

• Gentlemen, the malicious and groundless Reports which have been spread, make it necessary for me to assure you, that notwithstanding all that has been said, I never have supported, nor ever will support, any Measure which can by any Means be prejudicial to the Protestant Religion, or in any way tend to establish Popery in this Kingdom.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Support

• Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Turn