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Rem Koolhaas

"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."

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A.E. Samaan

"They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show."

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A.E. Samaan

"The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches."

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A.E. Samaan

"The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday."

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A.E. Samaan

"Losing feels worse than winning feels good."

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A.E. Samaan

"It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough."

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A.E. Samaan

"Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995."

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A.E. Samaan

"As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field."

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A.E. Samaan

"Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right."

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A.E. Samaan

"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."

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A.E. Samaan

"It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team."

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Rem Koolhaas
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."

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Rem Koolhaas
"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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Rem Koolhaas
"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."

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

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Rem Koolhaas
"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."

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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."

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Rem Koolhaas
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."

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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."

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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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