Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
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It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows.
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I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
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To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
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Our fans wanted us to be together way before we even realised that we had feelings for each other. Our fans helped us win a dance reality show, and so we decided to share our love with those who have made us who we are.
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Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.
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In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.
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Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.
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Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
