Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom...Be wise.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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Like a lot of people, I sold my first script in graduate school at UCLA, a 'Joan of Arc' for producer Joel Silver.
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We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'
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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
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The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.
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I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.
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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom...Be wise.
