Zaha Hadid Quotes
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.
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Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
