Steven Holl Quotes
My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.
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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
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In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
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I can write anywhere.
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The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
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I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
