Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
Quotes to Explore
-
I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
-
When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
-
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
-
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
-
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
-
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
-
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
-
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
-
In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
-
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
-
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
-
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
-
I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
-
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
-
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
-
I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
-
New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
-
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
-
Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
-
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
-
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
-
Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
