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" I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. "
Zaha Hadid
People
Long
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" I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. "
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" People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. "
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" Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true. "
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" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "
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" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "
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" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "
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" Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women. "
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" I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. "
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" I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. "
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" I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends. "
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School
Decision
" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? "
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" I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion. "
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" If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it. "
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" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "
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" 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. "
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Best
Nothing
" I really believe in the idea of the future. "
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Future
Believe
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" 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. "
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Student
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Plant
" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "
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" I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' "
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" 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. "
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" In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. "
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" The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. "
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" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "
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" I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "
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" Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. "
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