Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
I don't know how people can fake whole relationships... I can't even fake a hello to somebody I don't like.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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I had a vision - and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams - and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.
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If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
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When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.
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I don't know how people can fake whole relationships... I can't even fake a hello to somebody I don't like.
