Zaha Hadid Quotes
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
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What you are comes to you.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.
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In London there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
