Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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I was the only actor in my family. I wasn't given a lot of advice; I had to work it out.
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The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.
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My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
