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Ma Yansong Quotes

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

Ma Yansong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: architect
Nationality: chinese
Birth: 1975

Topics

Nature Culture Architecture Legacy

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Joe Rogan

Funny Thought Doing Go Way Write

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

Jeremy Scott

Life Girl Sad Red Cool End

There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.

Andy Biersack

Time Never Dressing Out Up Like

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Studs Terkel

Debate Argument Missing Things

I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.

Mary Gauthier

Love I Love

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys.

Michael Pena

Good You Down Person Play Want

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.

Michael Moore

Control America Wall Want Street

You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.

Jose Angel Gurria

Work Direction You Wealth Create Go

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Clay Aiken

Beauty Myself Happy Hair Win Trying

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.

Astro Teller

Mistakes Progress You Make Making

A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Alice Walker

Work Good Soul Government Enemy He

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Ocean Pollution Development Blueprint