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'm very happy and excited to be a member of the Boston Red Sox.
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What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
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A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
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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.
