Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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I most certainly believe that it is the gift of God that I am what I am. And so I dwell amongst barbarians, a proselyte and an exile, for the love of God.
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Pay attention to how we move things
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
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The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.
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False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
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If it’s freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave.
