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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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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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
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Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
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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.
