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"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
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"In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things."
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"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
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"Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office."
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"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."
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"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief."
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"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
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"I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker."
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"I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso."
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"One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it."
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"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."
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"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."
Influence
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
Winning
"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."
Certainty
"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
"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
Work
"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."
Architecture
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