Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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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?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Great
  • High

• And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Women
  • Remember
  • War

• The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Wisdom
  • Bodies
  • Adopts

• 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.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Clue

• 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.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Attention

• Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Crying
  • Ruin

• 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.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Real
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Dance

• 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.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Mean
  • Animal

• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Black
  • Light
  • Desire

• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Music
  • History

• From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey’s end. They were the pillars of their communities, and their communities’ dregs…

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Money
  • Planet
  • Companies

• So, instead, we are supplied with a constant stream of propaganda telling us about the righteous contempt that the people feel for the corrupt political class, which only serves to weaken the position of politicians still further, which in turn leads to a new round of gauntlet-running in the media. This process continues in a vicious circle, the inevitable culmination of which is the death of representative democracy, the complete impotence of politicians, and a hyper-real media dictatorship. This process is strengthened by feedback. Through the use of opinion polls, whose questions are obviously phrased by the media to serve their own purposes, the population is told what it thinks, and what it is “natural” to think. Then the media go on to show how adaptable politicians are adapting to this norm, or are allowing themselves to be adapted, and so the process goes on and on, ad infinitum. The investigations of the mass-media are, on their most profound level, investigations into the mass-media themselves. Statistics which purport to represent public opinion are actually the tools used by the media to manufacture opinion.

  

  Alexander Bard Army of Lovers
  • Media
  • Propaganda
  • Statistics

• Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Imagination
  • Picture

• When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Companies
  • Industries
  • Disruption