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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all."
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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
Beginning

"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."
Building

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty

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

"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
Work

"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."
Architecture

"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."
Now

"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
Reputation

"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
Office
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