Rem Koolhaas Quotes

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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BeginningCreativeI AmEndNeed

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family.

Jennie Garth

FamilyHeartMeThinkKnowLived

My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression.

Andrea Dworkin

WantOppressionHatredPreciousOwn

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

ArtMeSerenitySuitsRisingSole

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

John Muir

FlowerPowerControlCreationMay

I am very bullish and I have been bullish on India for a very long time, and I see our own business growing very substantially.

John L. Flannery

BusinessTimeI AmLongIndiaSee

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy

ChildrenWorldAccountingGeneration

Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity.

Michael Gambon

YouCelebrityStarJustMovie Star

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

TimeBreakfastRestaurantRenaissance

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

Rob Walton

ImaginationMeImportantMeanMost

My life has been very full.

Dolly Parton

LifeMy LifeBeenFullVery

You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.

Doug Stanhope

LaughYouFindHumourEvenShould

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

Brian McKnight

BusinessYouKnowNeedSideThings

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