Zaha Hadid Quotes
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.Zaha Hadid
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington -
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
Karen Morley -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom -
There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
Patrick Chan -
It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
Garth Brooks -
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
L. Lionel Kendrick
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole -
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
Rachel Dratch -
Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
Rachel Bloom -
Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
Zac Posen
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That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.
Alexandra Fuller -
I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.
Anthony Mann -
I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.
Anne Meara -
I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.
Charles Dallara -
Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.
Jan C. Ting -
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Zaha Hadid