Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.
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We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our failures humanise us, and they connect us to one another.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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Dovea in memoria avere il signor mio,Che l'oro e 'l premio ogni durezza inchina;Ma, quando bisognò, l'ebbe in oblio,Ed ei si procacciò la sua ruina.
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But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
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Love is inseparable from knowledge.
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If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.
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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
