"For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK."

-- Zaha Hadid

#Years Quotes #Students Quotes #Plant Quotes

“Why had I taken all those useless classes like bio and German when I should have been taking lipreading?”
“Sometimes, you have to go through a phase whether you like it or not.”
“I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to.”
“I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.”
“Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.”
“When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.”
“Our â€¦ reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.”
“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.”

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