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Arthur Erickson

"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."

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"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."

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"Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America."

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"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."

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"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."

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"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights."

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"I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went."

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"Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable."

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"I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it's the most beautiful country in the world."

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"Racism may be as systemic as it always was. It is the great problem of America. It's the one stumbling block that I don't believe was ever smoothed over."

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"The popular song is America's greatest ambassador."

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"Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America."

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"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
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"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us."
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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."
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"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."
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