Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
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I'm not out here just for the money. I want to be a great player.
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When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
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My dad's a history buff, and I spent a lot of time on Hadrian's Wall. I became fascinated by the idea of what was so terrifying up there that the Romans built a 60-mile long, 30-ft-high stone wall to keep it out.
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What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
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We believe that with Red Hat and IBM, those three pieces are the correct architecture to go and succeed, and with the number of people we have working in both the upstream open source, as well as hardening those technologies into products that can be easily consumed by the enterprise, that’s the special sauce that we bring to the mix.
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Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
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Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
