Kevin McCloud Quotes
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Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
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I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
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I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains.
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I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.
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I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.
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If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.
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I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.
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Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.
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There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
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Building design isn't trendy.
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Life involves other people and it is a compromise.
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I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost.
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I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'
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One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.
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Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.
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I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
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My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.
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It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?
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The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
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You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
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Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
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There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.
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What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.
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Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.