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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."

"Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office."

"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."

"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso."

"There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration."

"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."

"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."

"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."

"His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours."
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"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

"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 luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."

"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."

"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

"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."

"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."

"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
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