#la

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#chain #come #else #i #just

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#art #budget #call #end #end product

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#city #each #happen #i #i think

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#back #bland #built #cities #cold

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#behavior #broaden #continue #deepen #financial

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #back #businesses #companies #core

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#damaging #gradual #more #outcomes #plausible

My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent. ↗

— Mila Kunis

#advertised #agent #dad #heard #i

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#another #being #business #chance #dramatic

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. ↗

— Jean Genet

#black #branches #country #deep #did