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We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: quality, truth, beauty, best

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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: stillness, urgency, perfect, live, work
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: bad, smart, i-am, future
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: serious, way, think, political
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: life-story, against, story, sometimes, life
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: way, hands, ignore, think
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