Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
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When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
