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Rem Koolhaas

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

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Donna Grant

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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Donna Grant

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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Donna Grant

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Donna Grant

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

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Donna Grant

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

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Donna Grant

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Donna Grant

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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Donna Grant

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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Donna Grant

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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Rem Koolhaas
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."

Influence

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Rem Koolhaas
"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."

Space

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Rem Koolhaas
"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

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

Certainty

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Rem Koolhaas
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

Weather

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

Work

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Rem Koolhaas
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

Architecture

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Rem Koolhaas
"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."

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Rem Koolhaas
"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."

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

Age

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