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Zaha Hadid Quotes

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Adventure Me New Embrace

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.

Job Answer Get Would Did

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Never Office Years Got Four Once

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom Path War Choose Surrender

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

Music Me Musicians You Person Most

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Robert Kiyosaki

Victim Rather Than Victor

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

Love True Love Yourself Right Person

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Father Mother Childhood Government

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

God Children Words Looking You More

I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Me Writing Want Will Need Tell

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

School Child High School Parent True

I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.

Loved Bed Watch Used Kids Era

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Soul Buy Monkeys Sell Your Peanuts

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