Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
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The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.
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One thing about Notre Dame, it's like a service academy in a lot of ways. There is a closeness.
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I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.
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People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
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I didn't really know any Buddy Garritys, but I knew they were out there.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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