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Zaha Hadid Quotes

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Place First Hard Everyone Uniforms

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army.

John Paul Jones

Service Happy Army Possible Never

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Yourself Hurt Others Against Any

'Daughters of Britannia' is a fascinating book, not least because it shines a light on a very dark corner of Foreign Office dealings. Diplomatic spouses are the Aunt Sallys of the foreign service: responsible for nearly everything, recognised for almost nothing.

Light Service Book Dark Nothing

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

Color Feel Quiet Person Always Get

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Beauty Walking Garden Know Need Us

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

Life Power Believe America Long You

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

Future Truth Truth Is Want Without

When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

Deborah Moggach

Love Women People Hair Jungle Young

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect.

Respect Culture Listening Reading

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

People Sushi Places Eat Up Where

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

Work Car Drive Energy You Gasoline

There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.

Time Men Ideas Party Intellectual

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