Zaha Hadid Quotes

I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.

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• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Afraid
  • Own
  • Shadows

• For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Balance
  • Problems

• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Women
  • Family
  • Nice

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Know
  • Intelligent
  • Say

• Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Key

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Happy

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Soul

• My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Human

• I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Sweet

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Different
  • Together
  • Religious

• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Sick
  • Ridiculous
  • Agents

• No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Lord

• I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Feeling

• It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Beautiful
  • Always
  • Say