Zaha Hadid Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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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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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
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The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.
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I don't think 'nothing' is a good option.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
