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"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
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"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."

"I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan."

"I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff."

"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."

"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."

"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."

"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe."

"The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."

"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."

"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
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