"I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator."

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Source : "Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods". Interview with Geoff Manaugh, www.bldgblog.com. October 3, 2007.

Lebbeus Woods

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“I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

Source : "'Zoolander': Ben Stiller Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
“I want to do good, and I want people to be happy, and sometimes when youre a people pleaser, you spread yourself too thin.”
“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.”
“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”
“People shouldn't take my lack of interest in what they're saying personally. I don't really care about what I'm saying most of the time.”
“To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.57, Random House
“The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.”
“In the real world there are many tones, from white at one extreme, through a large number of medium tones to black at the other extreme. To achieve a three-dimensional effect on paper you need just three - white, black and medium gray.”

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