Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I do believe in the potential of like-minded people coming together.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
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My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
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A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. After all, money can’t buy you immortality.
