Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Rem Koolhaas

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• The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Honor

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Style
  • Everyone
  • Extremist

• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

  

  Randy Couture
  • You
  • Play
  • Find

• It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

  Gail Devers
  • Vision
  • Name
  • Race

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Said

• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Hard
  • Being
  • Coach

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • People
  • Done
  • Help

• When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Church

• It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Life

• American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Military

• When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.

  

  Louis Theroux

• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Waiting

• No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

  

  Jacques Derrida
  • She
  • Angry

• I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Great
  • Interesting

• We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Thought
  • Gay

• Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Interesting
  • Beauty
  • Boring