Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

  • -- Rem Koolhaas 雷姆·库哈斯

每一栋建筑都必须美观、便宜、快捷,但它却经久耐用。这已经是一连串看似矛盾的要求,令人难以置信。所以,是的,我确实是一个矛盾的人,但我是在非常矛盾的时期工作的。

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I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

我住在塞浦瑞斯的希腊一侧,我想这也是我对政治的兴趣真正开始活跃的地方。这是我第一次被告知我不能去任何地方:我祖父的房子在土耳其那边,但我们不被允许去那里。

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.

但与此同时,关于他们的老生常谈却是正确的:每个角色都是自己故事中的英雄。每个人对自己的行为都有令人信服的理由。给这些人发声很有趣。

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

我的手机一直没电,因为所有的信息都是直接发给我的。

The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.

事实上,你不想永远离开,但你想过正常的生活。

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

没有永远的冬天;没有春天会错过它的机会。

I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.

我可以卖掉用过的电池酸,让它飞起来。