Rem Koolhaas Quotes

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ShoppingStreetIndependentBecome

I just want to ball. I just want a chance to win a championship. I just want to win. I wake up every day smiling. Why? Because I've got my people around me. I really don't give a damn what anybody thinks about me or what I say or what I do.

Jimmy Butler

DayPeopleMeWinWake UpChance

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

Jimmy Sangster

MindEvilFacePatternsBenevolence

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

Jim Harrison

MyselfDayJobSeriouslyTaking

We've been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career.

Jerry Only

CareerThroughDifferentBeenOur

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

Robert Kennedy

GovernmentLawFindProtectRight

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

Steven Sinofsky

GoalsPeoplePerformanceGroupWill

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

Robert D. Kaplan

BeginningTravelWorldSlowEndYou

I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.

Mary Ellen Mark

BeautifulRelaxWorryFindStopGo

Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world of people who don't go at all. I wrote 'Chewing Gum Dreams' for them - I'd love them to come.

Michaela Coel

LoveDreamsPeopleTheatreWorldGo

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Michelle Obama

RideBikeMeExerciseLakeGym

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

Don Ellis

ThinkFeelYouArtistPlayTrue

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

David Suzuki

LoveFreedomJusticeGenderNeed

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