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" Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. "

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" My friendships are very important to me. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "

" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "

" The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme. "

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

" Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. "

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. "

" My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

" 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. "

" All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. "

" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. "

" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. "

" In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. "

" Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on. "

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "

" It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history. "

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "