Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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Taking my bike out and riding the bike path along Lake Shore Drive, that's one of the great experiences in my life. And I hope to do it as long as I can.
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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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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.
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I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
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When you work for something, no matter hard it is, no matter how time consuming, how draining it is, you work for it.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.
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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
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The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.
