"I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?"

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

David Chipperfield

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Cost Quotes

“Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.”
“Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.”
“Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.”
“I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.”

Source : "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.
“The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.”
“I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.”

Source : "Bill Shorten faces 'difficult' royal commission questioning over political staffer's salary". Interview with Adam Harvey, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2015.
“I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.”
“Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.”

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