Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
It's all about the ripple effects of “wealth creation”. What comes after you make it matters much more than before.
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I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
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I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
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The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
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If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.
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I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here.
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Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
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There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.
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I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.
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If he's happy to sit on an electric chair and tell a truth or a lie then I'm happy to sit on an electric chair and we'll see what the outcome is, because I've got no doubt in my mind what happened.
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A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.
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My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.
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We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.
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We write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
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It's all about the ripple effects of “wealth creation”. What comes after you make it matters much more than before.
