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"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
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"You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal."

"Divide the target in proportion to the available resources."

"We want to 'write in' our plan and 'write out' the consequence. When we do that, we're headed 'right back' to what we foolishly thought we could 'write out."

"Before you start working hard on your goals and dreams, be very sure that you have the right information. Working hard on the wrong plan or information would never take you anywhere. Learn from the great people that came before you."

"Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."

"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
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"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."

"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us."

"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."

"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."

"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."

"The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play."
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