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"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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"I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather."
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"Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!"
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"A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain."
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"To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather."
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"Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore."
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"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
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"Weather forecast for tonight: dark."
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"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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"I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm."
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"But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather."
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"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."
Architecture
"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
"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."
Weather
"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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