#ip

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#better #choices #getting #getting better #i

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architectural #architectures #defining #disciplines #ends

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#could #i #i think #long #long time

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#husband #j-g-ballard #james-graham-ballard #jg-ballard #marriage

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets. ↗

— Lena Goldfinch

#girly #food

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#any #figure #heroic #i #level

Sometimes I think I know her. This is not one of those times. This is not 3:33.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #knowledge #relationships #time #food

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#children #find #first #how #important