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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.

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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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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
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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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No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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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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As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
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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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You really have to have a goal.
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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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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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