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"We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction."
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."
"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
"When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today."
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