Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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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'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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Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.
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Lo these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
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There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.
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The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.
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Success is not found in what you have achieved but rather in who you have become.
