Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.
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People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
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Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.
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I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.
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I'm telling you that there is no silver bullet to keep home prices from going down or to prevent all foreclosures.
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One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
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The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.
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I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections and not the effect of light and shadow, as in ordinary buildings.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'
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A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.
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Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
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As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.
