Rem Koolhaas (Remment Lucas Koolhaas) Quotes
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I always drive like a madman.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
