Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
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Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.
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A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.
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When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.
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The Key point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
