Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
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Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.
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Jung fiercely resented the implication that he was a hypocritical, self-seeking Judas, a 'rat'. Yet there was just enough truth in it to strike home. He was undoubtedly a man who liked his own way, no matter what the cost to others.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,But westward, look, the land is bright.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.
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Whoever says that a man can live the Christian life, while at the same time successfully participating in the present order of things, is either profound in the lack of knowledge, or else he deliberately lies.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
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Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.
