Zaha Hadid Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
