Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.
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Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
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It is discouraging. But at the time same, I know it could have been worse.
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
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Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
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The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
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It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.
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Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.
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I really cannot tolerate people who always find excuses or reasons why certain things won't work. Find reasons and solutions to make it work.
