Rem Koolhaas Quotes

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

Rem Koolhaas

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Author Biography

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

Topics

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We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.

Andrew Forrest

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In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

John Naisbitt

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Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Schumann

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Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

Tom Wilson

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There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.

Robert Drew

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If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.

Robyn Davidson

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Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

Lucia Micarelli

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I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life.

Diora Baird

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I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Claude Nicollier

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Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.

Bob Beauprez

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I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.

William Godwin

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