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Ben Nicholson

"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."

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"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."

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"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."

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"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."

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"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

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