Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Fight not for your own abundance, but for the abundance of others & you'll see how your life will turn around.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
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I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
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I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
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Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.
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Fight not for your own abundance, but for the abundance of others & you'll see how your life will turn around.
