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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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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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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Once having proclaimed our loyalty to the abstract idea that all men are created equal, we do everything in our power to prove ourselves unequal. Among the world's peoples, none other belongs to so many clubs, associations, committees and secret societies.
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You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
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The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
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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.
