Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
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There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
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I'm a fan of NASCAR, in a certain kind of way.
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Sometimes comparing can be a good thing: it can inspire us to work harder and reach farther. But for the most part, excessive measuring yourself up against others - especially when it becomes a way to put yourself down - is a colossal waste of time. It's a dead end. It won't make you do anything except feel horrible.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.
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The good is not a category that interests me.
