Rem Koolhaas Quotes

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: November 17, 1944

Topics

ArchitecturePeopleThinkNothing

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

Jeff Bingaman

WashingtonNeverPermanentMove

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

Steven Pinker

MindSocietySingleMisleadingWere

Mexico is a market economy, but we should have better markets.

Luis Videgaray Caso

BetterEconomyMexicoMarketMarkets

I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.

Mimi Kennedy

BusinessTimeMyselfFoodPeople

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

Jason Aldean

MusicListeningRock And RollRock

If you love your film, you have to fight for it.

Jasmila Zbanic

LoveFightYouFilmYour

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

Don Bluth

YouFindGoThingsWhereFinancing

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

Dennis Muren

TogetherPeopleStoryKnowImportant

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Douglas Horton

GoodIdeasFreeBadDozenDime

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

Cormac McCarthy

PeopleBetterMysteryDamnWillGet

I love Scrivener. I've been using it since early 2007, and now I can't imagine working in anything else.

Antony Johnston

LoveEarlyNowAnythingWorking

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Paul Vixie

InternetProtectFencesEvenOur

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