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Zaha Hadid Quotes

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: british
Birth: October 31, 1950 - March 31, 2016

Topics

Great Moment Progress Optimism Up

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Together Strangers Dream Cinema Dark

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

Michael Douglas

Long You Nothing Celebrity Secret

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

John Ralston Saul

People Mind Comeback Doing Down Way

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Power Fool Country Vote Instrument

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

Respect Commitment Job Better Doing

If I go racing tomorrow and I have five rides that all get beaten, all I want to do is get out there the next day and put it right. I hate having Sundays off; I hate having any day off.

Hate Day Tomorrow Racing Go Want

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

Life Confident Environment Earth

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Voice Giving Doing Down Belief Mean

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry Wild Something Must Vast

Once I realized I wanted live in New York, I saved enough money that I wouldn't have to get a job right away. That was important to me, to focus on acting; I didn't want to come here and just fall into the mix.

Christopher Abbott

Live Money Focus Job New York Me

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

Time Tuxedo Wear Big Call Big Fan

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

Annie Leibovitz

Work Great I Am Me Great Things

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