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Rem 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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Building Never Two Same Least

Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.

Strength Women Character Service Day

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Fight War Happy Looking Back Victory

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

Time New York Evil Understanding New

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Music Trying You Conversation Find

The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.

Simon Conway Morris

Mystery Understand Touch Way Never

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out.

Troian Bellisario

Time Hate Feel Nothing Nails More

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

End Never Narrative Necessity Wants

Having that Christian base keeps me focused on what I have to do. It keeps me out of the clubs and in the gym.

Me Christian Gym Focused Out Having

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Live Age Think Mediocrity I Think

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

Time Revolution Political Interesting

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Marriage Research View You Gay More

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

Government Facts Hide Meet Able

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