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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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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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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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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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 follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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It's just a great joy to get back together on a stage 30 years later and be able to do it.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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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.
