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Rem Koolhaas Quotes: The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
         

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.


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Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.



A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.



Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.



Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.



Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.



It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.



Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.



The good is not a category that interests me.

The good is not a category that interests me.



Find optimism in the inevitable.

Find optimism in the inevitable.



Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.





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Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child



Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets

Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets



Always just remember that you can never know all you're always going to be learning there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

Always just remember that you can never know all you're always going to be learning there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.



I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.



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People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point.



Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.



Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.



I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!

I don't have a Madonna-sized fan base, so I can actually e-mail and talk to everyone that e-mails me, because I am totally appreciative and I like my fans!



If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.



Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.




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