Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I'm pretty boring.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems.
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Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
