Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
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Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.
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It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.
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Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
