Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
Quotes to Explore
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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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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I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
