Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
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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.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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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.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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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.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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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.
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Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.
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Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
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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.
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.
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How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!
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It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
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'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
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Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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I am accountable to the composer, but I am also there to communicate something to the listener. I am not delivering a soliloquy, but am somewhere in the middle.
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'Can't help our damned parents which is why we have to thrash our damned children'
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Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.
