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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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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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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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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The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
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As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.
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I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.
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My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.
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People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.
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You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
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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.
