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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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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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power
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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.
