Zaha Hadid Quotes
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
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The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
