Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Father
  • Man
  • Wife

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Past
  • Gods

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Country
  • Technology

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Career
  • Writer
  • Worldview

• I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feeling
  • Desire
  • Write

• When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Done
  • Most

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • You
  • Attention

• I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Believe
  • Style

• In the long run, the loans will help Iraq make its own way to a vibrant, free and prosperous future.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Long
  • Help
  • Future

• We mustn't keep meeting like this. Communications between the people of the moon and earth is forbidden...it is the way of the gods...we mustn't fall in love...but its already too late.

  

  Naoko Takeuchi
  • People
  • Communication
  • Meetings

• Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Creation
  • Treasure
  • Exists

• I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years. It just came with time, and it came with getting my feelings hurt, a few times, and realizing to stop performing for people but if perform for God, who gave you the talent, then you can care less about what any casting directors, producers, or what any of them think. You're doing it for a higher purpose. If they don't like it, that's okay! God does.

  

  Brely Evans
  • God
  • Confidence
  • Hurt

• I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • I Believe
  • Creation
  • Crisis