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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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"Nell looks at the label and comes to.'Oh, I'd never wear it. I like to buy things on a cost-per-wear basis. This dress would probably work out at like...thirty pounds a wear. No. I couldn't.''You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?' The assistant shrugs. 'Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris."
"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
"I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand."
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
"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."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"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."
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