Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes

What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Rem Koolhaas

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Israel
  • Critical
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• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
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• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Winter
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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
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• Did you really think I would sell you out?

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
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• Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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• I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Work
  • Career
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• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Good
  • Alone
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• Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Different
  • You
  • Know

• You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Family
  • End

• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
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• Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Practice
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• I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
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• Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
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  • For Her

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

  

  Emma Watson

• Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
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• In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Good
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• A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
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• What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Architecture
  • Intellectual
  • Concerned