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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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
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If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
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Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
