Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
One of the greatest accomplishments in life is doing what people say you can't do.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I don't read books.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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I don't like being lied to.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
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Gadgets can be engineered, programs can be designed, institutions can be built, but belief has an organic quality, and it cannot be called into being by fiat. Once a faith is shattered, it takes a long time to grow again - for its soil is experience - and to become effective again.
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As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.
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The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win
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Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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How can we tell our children that - when we have ourselves so often cried out in bitter despair at what we regarded to be the injustice of life - and when we have so often surrendered?
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One of the greatest accomplishments in life is doing what people say you can't do.
