Zaha Hadid Quotes
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.
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Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.
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A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
