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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Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
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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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So let me ask you something: how's everybody doing tonight, huh? (audience cheers) Good, well, fuck you! Just trying to make you feel at home.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
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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.
