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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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

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Donna Grant

"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."

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Donna Grant

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."

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Donna Grant

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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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
"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."

Now

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

Reputation

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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."

Building

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Rem Koolhaas
"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."

Luxury

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