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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
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"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them."
"I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine."
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"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
"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."
"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."
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."
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