Rem Koolhaas Quotes

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArchitectureGreenIntellectualNow

Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.

Jim Webb

LeaderVisionMovingFriendsCountry

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

DestinyWishesWayBeyondOrderOwn

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

John Milton

MenManStupidFreeBornKnows

A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.

Johnathan Joseph

ChallengeFaceBackDownGoNever

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Amy Adams

ColdWeirdDownSituationCryGet

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.

Robert Adams

ArtSocietyYouGotDefinedJeff

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

Marvin Hagler

TimeFireFeelBackStopKnow

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

Mike McCready

PlayWantAgainFestivalEver

I love to accentuate my eyes, so I'll wear eyeshadow and mascara.

Ming Xi

LoveEyesWearMascaraI Love

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

Dimebag Darrell

EnoughPlayOkaySoloCallGoing

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.

Dawn Richard

MusicTogetherCoolStoryThought

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Pierre Bonnard

ColorLogicDrawingYouMoreReason

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