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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
Zaha Hadid
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Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
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You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
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There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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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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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.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
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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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The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.
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If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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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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