Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
-
I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
-
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
-
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
-
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
-
I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
-
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
-
The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.
-
I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
-
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
-
Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
-
People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
-
On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed.
-
Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
-
Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
-
The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
-
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
-
How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
-
Galentine's Day is the day before Valentine's Day. People sometimes think, 'Oh, it's a replacement for Valentine's Day.' But it's not. You can celebrate Galentine's and Valentine's. And it comes from the sitcom 'Parks And Recreation'... Amy Poehler's character created this holiday because she wanted a day to celebrate her girlfriends.
-
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
-
Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
-
The book business is hidebound.
-
I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.
-
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
