Neutral looks are NICE to look at, but I THINK that with some added drama you can MAKE any OUTFIT more BEAUTIFUL.

When you're working in service to a big PROJECT, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I THINK is RIGHT artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm PERFECTLY comfortable working. I don't need to sit AROUND and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and TECHNOLOGY, and the people in science and technology have very little EXPERIENCE with liberal arts and the TRADITIONS of a liberal democracy.

My FATHER was a POLITICIAN, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi DEMOCRATIC Party, who believed in progress.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and USE this frontier spirit to lead and SHOW OTHERS that we NEED courage to GO places where we have not gone before.

It's a good MARRIAGE because each of us is what we are, allows the other one to be themselves, and appreciates each other for the RIGHT REASON. You know, it's rare that you'll find TWO people who don't try to change the other person and let everyone be what they are.

I was just, as a child, very different from the OTHERS, and didn't really care what they THOUGHT because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you SORT of gain your inhibitions later.

So we can't go BACKWARDS, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is TAKING us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

I DESIGN for the use of a building and the place and for the PEOPLE who use it... the reputation for ARROGANCE comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a GENUINE interest in quality.