Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
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Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.
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If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
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It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.
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After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
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I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.
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In a media age where books are no longer the primary medium for information storage and exchange, language must be reclaimed from the hucksters and the pedants and imaginatively reinforced. To save literature, educators must take command of the pre-rational world of images. The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
