Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Rem Koolhaas

• Identity
• Stronger
• Contradiction
• Expansion
• Imprisons

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• Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Always
  • See
  • Last

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • May
  • You

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Man
  • Quality

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Never
  • Far

• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Responsibility

• In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • motivation
  • Run
  • Twilight

• I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

  

  Kathryn Harrison

• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

  

  Dora Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Action

• Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

  

  Anastasia Griffith

• When my kids are happy, I am happy.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Happy

• Every man has the basis of good. Not only human beings, you can find it among animals and insects, for instance, when we treat a dog or horse lovingly.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Dog
  • Horse

• Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

  

  Dick Trickle

• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  

  Elise M. Boulding
  • Society
  • Happiness
  • Teach

• It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Prayer
  • Moment
  • Identity

• The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Identity
  • Stronger
  • Contradiction