Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
