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Very Quotes by Zaha Hadid
- 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.…
- 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 think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm…
- Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's…
- 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…
- For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
- No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
- Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
- Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
- I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
- I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
- I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
- My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
- There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
- 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…
- 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.…
- It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop,…
- My friendships are very important to me.
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