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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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"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
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"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."
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"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."
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"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
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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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"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman."
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
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"It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office."
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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
Simplicity
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
Architecture
"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 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
"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."
Now
"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
"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
"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."
Now
"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
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