"Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce."

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Source : "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

David Chipperfield

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“Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.”

Source : "Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: 'F*ck Off!'". Interview with MG Siegler, techcrunch.com. May 24, 2010.
“If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.”
“I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The governor strikes me as a man seeking popularity, who lacks the independence and manhood to do right at the risk of losing popularity. Afraid of what will be said. He is prejudiced against the Irish and Democrats.”
“News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.”

Source : "Canadian host George Stroumboulopoulos brings talk show to CNN". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, uk.reuters.com. June 10, 2013.
“I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.”
“I'm on the road to riches, it's just a lil traffic.”
“Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact â€¦ the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.”
“But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don't think it would affect retailers. Besides, that's part of the joy of Christmas ? to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them.”

Source : "Gift rift: Evangelicals split over plan to ban presents" by Joe Garofoli, www.sfgate.com. December 24, 2005.

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