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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

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Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Architecture

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I'm not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
  • 2. Sure I played did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
  • 3. I don't know whether it's age or maturity but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.
  • 2. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.
  • 3. For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London Barcelona Bologna Hong Kong Thailand Morocco… It was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face women have been trained to cut off anger.
  • 2. Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio and gets you to work – though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
  • 3. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Love grows more tremendously full swift poignant as the years multiply.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 2. You might say that when you step inside you're entering a honorific space but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
  • 3. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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