Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Power doesn’t always roar.... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
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I've always been interested in art.
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The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
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All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
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I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
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Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
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Power doesn’t always roar.... The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.
