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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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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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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Everything starts from a dot.
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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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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
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I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.
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In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
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I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
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I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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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.
