Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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Nothing in my songs is disrespective.
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What you say and do in a crisis matters.
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I'm pretty good about getting some exercise every day - well, most days. The secret for me was to put the elliptical in front of the TV.
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
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I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
