Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
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When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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I need to build my team around my weaknesses.
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The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the supreme being for man. It ends, therefore, with the categorical imperative to overthrow all those conditions in which man is an abased, enslaved, abandoned, contemptible being.
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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
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The difference is, this time, we win.
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When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
