Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Future
  • Party
  • Fight

• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Home
  • Night
  • Alone

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Pleasure
  • Really
  • Take

• The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Power
  • Free
  • Government

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dressing
  • Shoe
  • Closet

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Harmony

• I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Fans
  • Polite
  • Seem

• I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Like
  • Now
  • Content

• I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Champion
  • Speed
  • Believed

• The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Glances
  • Cocktails
  • Amorous

• 'Mature' and 'responsible' are words I don't understand.

  

  Judy Carne
  • Understand
  • Responsible
  • Mature

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Girl

• France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Business
  • Single

• Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Criticism
  • Drive
  • Entrepreneurs