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"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
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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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"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to 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 got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them."
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"Reading is my greatest luxury."
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"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
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"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."
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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'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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"I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit."
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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."
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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
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity
"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."
Beginning
"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
Luxury
"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
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
Winning
"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."
Advertising
"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
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
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