Zaha Hadid Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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The success of ISIS is largely tied to the safe haven it has in Syria.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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It's just extremely difficult to shoot with five dogs. They're great, and the people who handle them are amazing. But they're animals.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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We don't notice that our cells are turning over all the time. You get a completely new composition of cells every seven years, and on the surface, or subjectively, it looks as though you're the same for seven years. It's like a ground - it looks stable, but beneath it, everything is shifting all the time. It's exciting and dangerous.
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We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
