Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

If you’re going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Judged
  • Rather

• I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

  

  Carl Rogers
  • May
  • Change
  • Relationship

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Used

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• 革命的集体组织中的自由主义是十分有害的。它是一种腐蚀剂，使团结涣散，关系松懈，工作消极，意见分歧。它使革命队伍失掉严密的组织和纪律，政策不能贯彻到底，党的组织和党所领导的群众发生隔离。这是一种严重的恶劣倾向。

  

  Mao Zedong

• The standard of permanent Christianity must be kept clear in our minds and it is against that standard that we must test all contemporary thought. In fact, we must at all costs not move with the times.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Money
  • Fool

• Oh, God! it is a fearful thingTo see the human soul take wingIn any shape, in any mood.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Soul
  • Mood

• It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Free
  • Search

• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Different
  • Dark

• When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Tragedy
  • Welcome
  • Protest

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Funny
  • Play
  • Stupid

• Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

  

  Jessica Szohr
  • Interesting
  • Weird

• In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a 'whisper' is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife's ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret.

  

  John McAfee
  • Time
  • Business
  • Age

• If you’re going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Stupid
  • Matters
  • Losers