Kengo Kuma Quotes

#1. The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

Chris Matthews

#2. We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.

Todd Farmer

#3. If we could combine Starbucks spirit with the spirit of the artisan, we knew we could achieve something special.

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#4. This is how we must look to God.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

Zhang Xin

#6. My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

Louise Bourgeois

#7. The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

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#8. She was a blameless sinless woman, yet she understood who how it was with people who sinned. Inflexibly rigid in her own moral conduct, she condoned weaknesses in others. She revered God and loved Jesus, but she understood why people often turned away from these Two.

Betty Smith

#9. Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#10. Was that true? I didn't know. That was part of being human, I discovered. It was about knowing which lies to tell and when to tell them. To love someone is to lie to them.

Matt Haig

#11. EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

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