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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.

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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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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.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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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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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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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.
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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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When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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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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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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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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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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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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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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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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