Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Yourself
  • Loved
  • Hated

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Honest
  • Lazy

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • God
  • Man
  • Dark

• Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Important
  • Science
  • Strange

• And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Great
  • History
  • Today

• Nothing important is completely explicable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Important

• I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Rest

• Diwali means family, so either I go down to Bangalore, or my family comes to Mumbai. I always ensure I take a few days off.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Family

• I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.

  

  Birch Bayh
  • Women
  • Party
  • Effort

• Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Passion

• When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Work
  • Done

• If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

  

  Emmet Fox
  • World
  • Powerful

• Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great
  • Technology

• Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Nature
  • Technology
  • Failing

• We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips, but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnival midway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words like democracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—but do we really know what they mean?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Society
  • Technology
  • Democracy