Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.
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The truth is, few people put up with emotional abuse as an adult unless they were abused as a child. And nearly every person who becomes emotionally abusive has a history of such abuse in childhood.
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
