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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. -- Tadao Ando
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. -- Ben Katchor
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? -- Nellie McKay
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. -- Alan Davies
In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings. -- Thom Mayne
New ideas must use old buildings -- Jane Jacobs
New ideas often need old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. -- Mark Twain
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. -- Farah Diba
We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them. -- Jackie Kennedy
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. -- Bob Feller
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have. -- Sonia Braga
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
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture. -- Howard Pyle
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. -- John Osborne
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. -- Delia Ephron
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. -- Herb Caen
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F. Kennedy
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it. -- Cameron Mackintosh
Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. -- Paige Butcher
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. -- Florence Henderson
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building. -- Carl Sandburg
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. -- Helge Ingstad
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. -- Kathleen Turner
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year. -- James Howard Kunstler
The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. -- Tom Morello
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. -- Christopher Alexander
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' -- Whit Stillman
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. -- Jamie Bell
Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side. -- David Hewson

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