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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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.
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After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
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Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
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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.
