Zaha Hadid Quotes
My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
