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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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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That biological jack-of-all-trades called ecologist tries to be and do all these things. Needless to say, he does not succeed.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
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The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
