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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."

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

"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."

"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."

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

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

"It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office."

"I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5."

"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 our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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