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.Rem Koolhaas
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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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
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.
Pamela Stephenson -
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.
Pat Gillick -
I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
Yaphet Kotto -
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
Haley Bennett -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
Flula Borg -
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
Samuel Pepys -
When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
Patrick Kane -
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
Garrett Fort -
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.
Octavia E. Butler -
Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.
Charles Hazlewood
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I'm not out here just for the money. I want to be a great player.
Kawhi Leonard -
When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
Jess Glynne -
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.
Neil Marshall -
I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.
Andrew Lincoln -
I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.
Mary Fallin -
In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.
Christopher Alexander
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If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
Lee Radziwill -
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
Diogenes -
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
Bill Bryson -
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
George Packer -
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.
Rem Koolhaas