Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
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I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
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I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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I believed all that stuff about pleasing myself. Can't be done. You can't please yourself by doing what you want. Because it doesn't mean anything if it's just you. There has to be somebody it matters to.
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All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.
