Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.
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Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
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I remember where I was when I first heard 'Boyz N The Hood' – 126th Street and Normandy, South Central, Los Angeles. I remember that I was on my porch. What they described in that song was so vivid and so clear to me because it was the kind of life I was used to witnessing and partly experiencing in my neighborhood.
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I try to stay at the same spots all the time, so they remember me.
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To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.
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I'm half-Chinese and half-Caucasian. My grandparents came here from China. My father was born in New Jersey.
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Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
