Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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The show has become my therapy.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
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Sexual scandals are especially effective against Republicans who can then also be accused of hypocrisy inasmuch as they're always spouting off about morality and junk like that. Of course, some personal issues such as former Klan membership or leaving the scene of a fatal accident are off limits for obvious reasons
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We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The way we experience the world around us is a direct reflection of the world within us.
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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
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I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.
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Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.
