"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."

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Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

Arthur Erickson

#Badass Quotes #Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes

“New ideas often need old buildings.”
“Compound interest is proof of gods existence.”
“That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.”

Source : "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.
“Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.”
“But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.”
“There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isnâ€™t all that perfect.”
“I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.”
“For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.”

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