"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."

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"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."

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"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy."

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"It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together."

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"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."

Minoru Yamasaki, American Architect

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"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."

Alex O'Loughlin, Australian Actor

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"Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great."

Enid Nemy, American Journalist

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"I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now."

Liam Neeson, Irish Actor

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"While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope."

Sam Wood, American Director

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"What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars."

Murray Gell Mann, American Physicist

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"If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor."

Robert Metcalfe, American Inventor

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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."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

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"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."

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"If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see."

Man,

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"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."

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"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."

Life, Nature, Environment

"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."

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"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."

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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."

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"The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness."

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"Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway."

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