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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. -- Christopher Alexander
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong." -- Jasper Fforde
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. -- Jasper Fforde
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
One great building does not make a great city. -- Thomas Heatherwick
What the Internet is great at is building networks. -- Evan Williams
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses. -- Tamara Mellon
I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time. -- Sally Kellerman
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. -- Freeman Dyson
We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company. -- Jim Barksdale
I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies. -- Ryne Sandberg
Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company. -- Craig Sherman
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. -- Arthur Erickson
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system. -- Arthur Henderson
I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient. -- Michael Lee-Chin
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. -- Louis Kahn
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. -- Philip Johnson
I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience. -- Christopher Egan
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. -- Harry Seidler
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model? -- Paul Goldberger
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there. -- Sanjay Dutt
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture. -- Tadao Ando
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself. -- Ice Cube
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. -- Victor Hugo
I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk. -- Ed Askew
Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. -- Charles Roven
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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