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Rem Koolhaas

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REM KOOLHAAS Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discre...
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REM KOOLHAAS Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the ...
REM KOOLHAAS The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
REM KOOLHAAS The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
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REM KOOLHAAS As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human...
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REM KOOLHAAS Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incr...
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SUNDAY ADELAJA They're an incredible live band.
JOE ARMENIA We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
LES BROWN We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON She had almost perfect pitch and an angelic voice.
LAVERNA BAUGUESS We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation....
BRUCE BABBITT They're incredible to work with.
BRAD CALCATERRA Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN This is the silver lining in the dark cloud of Katrina. We would not have been able to start with an...
SAJAN GEORGE We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
MAIKA MONROE We played 60 minutes. We defended with energy and we played with urgency.
PAUL GILLIS I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometim...
ECKHART TOLLE This is an incredible time for Habitat. We're working with partners, corporations, churches, leaders...
JOEDY ISERT We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and...
BROOKE SHIELDS Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just ...
JENNY HAN The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and ot...
MARC BENIOFF Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her wor...
PAUL LIEBERSTEIN I thought we played flawlessly, almost a perfect game.
BRIAN MENY My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of...
ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY We were surprised to see that breathing completely stopped when the rat entered REM (rapid eye movem...
LEANNE MCKAY We finally played with the sense of urgency.
JARED PHAY We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.
JAN DE BONT ...knowing that you could die in the next minute - should spark an urgency within you ...to LIVE you...
LORRIN L. LEE It was hard real hard. Rem was great about it. He's a real pro.
DUSTY BAKER When you believe the TRUTH, there's an incredible freedom. You're free to live without fear.
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN We live in sober times. We face incredible international tensions and have domestic issues that are ...
JOHN WEAVER Katrina adds an urgency,
BENET WILSON An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...
DEAN KAMEN We were close. We never could generate enough offense on a consistent basis to not have to play perf...
LEONARD DRAKE Ask with urgency and passion.
ARTHUR BALFOUR Ask with urgency and passion.
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precis...
RAINER MARIA RILKE This is powerful work and we live in an age that many tools and technologies can be turned into weap...
LAURIE ZOLOTH We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.
BILL NYGREN That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying...
CORDELL HULL I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG We've never slammed people over the head or made 'The Flash' an after-school special. Wi...
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GLENN TAYLOR I thought we deserved to win. I was so awfully proud of the team. They did everything we planned. Th...
BRUCE GUNTER We never really played with any urgency throughout the game.
BRAD ELLEBRACHT African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movie...
LYNN NOTTAGE We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the...
BEN ZOBRIST I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.
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