Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
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Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
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When you constantly revisit things, it's hard to know if you're freezing in time or if you're a brilliant adult who's working through it. I think about that in therapy, talking about the same things over and over again.
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Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.
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I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best as you have on a pro-environment record of anybody in the U.S. Senate.
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Most advisers don't realize non-spouse beneficiaries cannot do a rollover.
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
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Ninety percent of all people under 30 are in developing countries, and that means that this new access to tech, which is such a positive thing... is also a ticking time bomb of frustration... You get this clear mismatch of opportunity and expectation.
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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
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Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
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People are only loyal until it becomes convenient not to be.
