"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."

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Helmut Jahn

#Integrity Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Usa Quotes

“Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. â€˜I havenâ€™t really noticed,â€™ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”
“This is the standard procedure for corporate growth these days; one company buys up another on loans that are floated on the basis of future earnings, and the monopoly or oligopoly created in this way produces the necessary funds by squeezing out competition, and passing the costs along to the consumer. The bucket that holds the new wealth is called a corporation.”
“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”
“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”
“They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there myself.”
“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light...”
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
“I did two or three plays every summer.”

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