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Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

Frank Gehry

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
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You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.
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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
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