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.
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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.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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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.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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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.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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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.
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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction. The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight).
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America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
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Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
