Zaha Hadid Quotes
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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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 have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.
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There are people who just haven't done as well in a globalized economy.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
