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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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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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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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
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Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.
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I was an English major.
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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
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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.
