Zaha Hadid Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies... From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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I think, for a while, my music was exclusively for those who shared my beliefs. But I realized I was perpetuating the bubble that I was living in instead of inviting people into my world.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.
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Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
