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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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"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
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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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"Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor."
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"It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing."
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"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury."
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"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
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"Reading is my greatest luxury."
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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."
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"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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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
Reputation
"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
"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."
Now
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty
"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."
Beauty
"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
Age
"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
"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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"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
Work
"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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