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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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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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 love, when I'm on holiday in cities, going into church and feeling that reverence and that kind of automatic respect: the sort of magic which exists in those kind of religious temples.
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To suggest the President of the United States and the head of the free world - the man who is changing the world - is being manipulated by Mitch McConnell is insulting to the president; it's absolutely insulting.
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
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I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.
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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.
