Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
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The harder you look, the harder you look.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.
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Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.
