Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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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'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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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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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
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I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
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The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.
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I hope to work with kids any way possible.
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.
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Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.
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When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.
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I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
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Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
