"Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it."

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Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

— Pico Iyer