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

• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

  

  Yanni
  • Love
  • Cold
  • Hungry

• You should strike at the moon in the water.

  

  Yagyu Munenori
  • Water
  • Moon
  • Strike

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

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Criticism
  • Drive
  • Entrepreneurs