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.

Rem Koolhaas

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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Literature
  • Said
  • Emotions

• My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Life
  • Education
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Justice
  • Environmental

• Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Process
  • Immigration

• 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.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Person
  • Right
  • Process

• I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Work
  • She

• 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.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Done
  • America
  • Cancer

• It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

  

  Kristin Kreuk

• 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.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Question

• My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

  

  Augustus Sol Invictus

• It just clicked that it was the next step for me; choreographing didn't interest me, and opening a studio wasn't a passion for me. I didn't know if I'd be very good at acting, but then my first scene in acting class... I just loved it.

  

  Bree Turner
  • Good
  • Passion

• There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.

  

  Angel Olsen
  • Expectation

• As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Soul

• I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

  

  Jeremy London
  • Cool

• We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • City

• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  

  Kajol
  • Heart
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Believe
  • Read
  • Consider

• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Think
  • Right

• It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Lose
  • Intimacy

• It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Age
  • Sense
  • Possible