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Ben Nicholson

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

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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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"Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz."

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"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

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"Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap."

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Amber Hurdle

"The higher the building the lower the morals."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."

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Amber Hurdle

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."

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"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."

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"MTV lets us do whatever we want. For me, there is freedom in serving an experienced client who knows what they want and has the money to do it. MTV is that for us."
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"The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture."
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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years."
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