Rem Koolhaas Quotes

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Rem Koolhaas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautyTruthBestQualityIdentity

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

Jennifer Garner

PainPeopleFeelShameThings

The perfect gadget would somehow allow me to fly. Isn't that what everybody wants? It would also cook a damn good microwave pizza. So while in flight you had something to eat - an in-flight meal. Where would I go? Well, nowadays, it would probably just take me to work a lot quicker.

John Krasinski

WorkGoodPizzaMeFlyYou

I have no regrets about leaving Barcelona.

Mauro Icardi

LeavingNo RegretsRegretsBarcelona

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

Steve Vai

MusicPassionIdeasGuitarLoved

I'm very much in work mode, and that can be very difficult for someone to deal with. I dedicate so much of myself to my work that I even take a back seat to that sometimes. My mother says that Tremaine takes a back seat to Trey Songz.

Trey Songz

WorkMotherMyselfSomeoneBack

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.

Roger Ver

SocialismFreeOwnershipHumanIdea

A lot of people produce podcasts in which they simply ramble on for hours about themselves and their lives. There is something very poignant about the volume of human desire to be heard out there in the Wild West of podcasts.

Michelle Dean

PeopleDesireHumanWildOutWest

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

Mireille Enos

FatherMotherFrenchTexan

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

Josiah Strong

CitySeriousCivilizationBecomeOur

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

Jason Alexander

FunnyHumorMeBetterSense Of Humor

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

David Thewlis

TimeSchoolChildLearnEasyWill

All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.

Christopher Reeve

GoodProblemYouBodySayYour Body

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