Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's style.
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I think the stock market is a very dangerous place to be at the present time. In fact, the stock market today is almost identical to where it was in October 2007 and then there was a $7 trillion crash and before that in March 2000.
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Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.
