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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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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I was really a shy kid.
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
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The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.
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People should be called the way that they want to be called rather than us coming up with terms that maybe we're more comfortable with.
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It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.
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I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.
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My Only Boss is Money.
