Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.
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See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
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When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
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'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
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I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.
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My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
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There are situations where the best solution still doesn't make everyone happy. The trick is understanding what's best.
