Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atmospheric run up and down the scale that's really dreamy.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
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To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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'During my next visit with you, fellow-believers,' he said, 'I shall tell you a parable about people who do things that they think God Almighty wants done. In the meanwhile, you would do well, for background on this parable, to read everything that you can lay your hands on about the Spanish Inquisition.'
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People aren't born good or bad. It's the way you live your life that matters and how many people you inspire and empower after you're gone.
