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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
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"Be simple to fill life with abundance."
"A cup of tea is all I need to keep working."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
"Let it be simple, let it be with love."
"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!"
"Adorn yourself with modest dressing."
"In a day a man needs only his daily bread."
"To be simple, be kind. To be free, be non-judgmental. To be happy, be kind and loving."
"Urgency fills our life with stress and anxiety. but slowness, simplicity, and love fill our life with beauty and happiness."
"If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!"
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
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