Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.
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If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
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I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.
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Someone who takes love away from us devastates the cultural structure we've worked on all our lives, deprives us of that sort of Eden that until that moment had made us appear innocent and lovable. Human beings give the worst of themselves when their cultural clothes are torn off, and they find themselves facing the nakedness of their bodies, they feel the shame of them. In a certain sense the loss of love is the common experience closest to the myth of the expulsion from the earthly paradise: it's the violent end of the illusion of having a heavenly body, it's the discovery of one's own dispensability and perishability.
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Maturity comes with experience, not age.
