Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
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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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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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My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.
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Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate - it's unbelievable.
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.
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I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous; there's really nothing to lose.
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The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
