Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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I write very slowly.
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We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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You have to trust your body to take care of you.
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There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
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A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
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How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
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My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
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L.A.'s a great city in a lot of ways. There's a lot of great weather here. I know some good people.
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
