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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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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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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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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A girl can never have too many lipstick options!
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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I did a movie in Esperanto.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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If a problem can be solved by writing a check, it's not a problem, it's an expense.
