Zaha Hadid Quotes

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

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• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Loving

• Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Live
  • Spiritual

• I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Life
  • Father
  • Freedom

• 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Man
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • House
  • Instant

• A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Back
  • Go
  • Started

• I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • She
  • Think
  • Game

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • God
  • Victory

• OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Star

• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Hero

• People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, he remembered. The doctors were against me - they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Heart
  • Sex

• Who says that Adam didn’t write and hand down writings to Noah who brought them on board the ark?

  

  Ken Ham
  • Hand

• She had long since found peace. And Frederick, from her passionately loved bridegroom, from her worshipped young husband, had become second only to God on her list of duties and forbearances. There he hung, the second in importance, a bloodless thing bled white by her prayers. For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again longing, desiring...

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • God
  • Importance
  • Prayers

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• My fans reflect who I am.

  

  Kenny Chesney

• While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Mind
  • May
  • Relationship

• You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

  

  Zaha Hadid