Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
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I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.
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If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress.
