Zaha Hadid Quotes
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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I am not one of those people who string their exes along. Instead, I run and hide: under the covers, behind my computer screen, on opposite coasts of the country.
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Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I thought it was to avoid that.
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I'm a father first.
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I'm not a businessman.
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
