Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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Form follows beauty.
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Oderint dum metuant.
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I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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It takes me a while to get my appetite going when I wake up early.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
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The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
