Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more we don't judge.
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Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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Fear controls you.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I've always imagined myself doing well, whatever I did.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
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Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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Today, maturity is a word I associate with spirituality. It's one of those words that cause people to change their voice. When your voice gets higher because of what you're saying, there's a problem. To me, the conflict of life is part of the joy of life. There's got to be a recognition of the friction that exists. Maturity seems somehow about getting careful. I don't want to be careful.
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The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.
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If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
