"I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game."

-- Jean Nouvel

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“there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.”
“Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.”

Source : S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.424, Simon and Schuster
“Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.”
“It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.”
“I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.”
“Don't worry about things that you have no control over, because you have no control over them. Don't worry about things that you have control over, because you have control over them.”
“My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.”

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