Zainab Salbi Quotes

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Zainab Salbi

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• Evil

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• My father was a lawyer.

  

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• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

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• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

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• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

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• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

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• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

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• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

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• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
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• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

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• I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

  

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• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
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• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

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• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

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• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

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• I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

  

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• Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

  

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• There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.

  

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  • Affection

• We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

  

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  • Nice
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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  

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  • People
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• Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • War
  • Strong