"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built"

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Source : "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

Daniel Libeskind

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“I went to Philippines and I literally had the time of my life...”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence.”
“When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.”
“For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.”
“There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.”
“The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth (2007). “Home at Grasmere: Extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth and from the Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.258, Penguin UK
“I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.”

Source : Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins
“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.”

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