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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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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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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Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
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I think in terms of the themes that I have worked on most is establishing questions of race in the context of Latin America. This is a theme that makes uncomfortable a lot of people, and it obviously makes the Latin American Left uncomfortable.
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The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
