Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Think and grow rich.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.
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The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Simply: the practice makes the master. Practice every day, or at least try to sing, as much as you can. And I don´t stop, if I´m not on tour, I´m on a studio, and if I don´t, I do it for pleasure, I do it every day, is something that is part of my life.7
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Making people laugh is the greatest gift you can give, so I'm never going to stop that.
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There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'
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I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
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Then I put a fat rabbit on a Craftmatic!
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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Having a pet spayed or neutered actually extends its lifespan by a few years and reduces any aggressive traits or tendencies.
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When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.
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Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.
