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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Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.
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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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The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
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I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
