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I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
Helmut Jahn
Architecture
Nothing
Strive
Taken
Which
Away
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
Helmut Jahn
Life
Generation
People
Demanding
Think
More
Poised
Environment
Terms
How
Dominate
Younger
Younger Generation
Workforce
Conscious
Socially
In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
Helmut Jahn
Demanding
Build
More
Rent
Europe
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn
Integrity
Architecture
Lost
Ambition
Architect
General
Lot
Scruples
USA
Profession
Here
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
Helmut Jahn
You
Experience
Building
Starts
Distance
See
How
Creating
Unique
Unique Experience
We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
Helmut Jahn
Natural
Valuable
Too
Synthetic
Rather
Almost
Metal
Materials
Than
Wood
While
Prefer
Produce
Much
Products
Harder
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
Helmut Jahn
You
People
Beauty
Way
Come
Know
Talk
Very
Expect
Just
Interaction
Chinese
Little
Room
Farce
Filled
Presentation
I'm ashamed to be German.
Helmut Jahn
German
Ashamed
Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.
Helmut Jahn
Success
You
Everything
Project
Be Prepared
Does
Got
Mean
Next
Prepared
Necessarily
When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.
Helmut Jahn
Work
Me
Endeavor
Totally
Something
Take
Takes
Attention
Like
Sailing
Off
Very
Where
Your
Hard
Professionally
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
Helmut Jahn
Work
Better
Think
Find
Feel
Feels
Well
Exercise
Body
Regularly
I'm just a nice and easy person.
Helmut Jahn
Nice
Easy
Person
Just
Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.
Helmut Jahn
Life
Work
Day
Travel
Nothing
Way
Pleasure
Run
Find
Like
Time-Consuming
Very
Just
Working
Actually
Rainy
Rainy Day
For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.
Helmut Kohl
Me
Our
Air
Would
Would-Be
Clear
Germany
American
Available
Bases
Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.
Helmut Kohl
National
Past
Community
Consequences
Carried
Must
Collectively
Seem
Individual
Particularly
Because
Isolated
Method
However
Often
Moves
Decisions
Might
Choice
Should
European
Actions
Belong
I like everything that makes you fat.
Helmut Kohl
You
Everything
Like
Makes
Fat
We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.
Helmut Kohl
People
Power
Abyss
Danger
Inside
More
More Power
Greater
Us
Humans
Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.
Helmut Kohl
Will
Important
Neighbor
East
Russia
Remain
Most
Germany
The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
Helmut Kohl
You
Made
Christian
Relation
Feel
Like
Democrats
Always
Poor
People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.
Helmut Kohl
Buy
People
Wait
Car
Criminal
East
Had
Like
Were
West
Years
Labor
Germans
Wanted
Fruits
Regime
Worked
Whoever
Here
Imagine
Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed. Beyond that, I am struggling to think of much else in terms of real legacy.
Helmut Kohl
Time
Communism
Will
Finished
Think
Else
Struggling
Fact
He
Beyond
Terms
Gorbachev
Without
Am
Real
His
Off
Bloodshed
Legacy
In Fact
Against
Much
Violence
Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.
Helmut Kohl
Financial
National
Down
Enough
State
Financial Crisis
Crisis
Economic
Put
Idea
Since
Force
Issues
Been
Essential
Crashed
Transition
Poor
Century
Us
Europe
European
Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.
Helmut Kohl
War
You
Money
Pay
Other
More
Never
Than
Currency
Common
Nations
Against
Each
My parents were Christians - Catholics, but not in the close-minded sense. I remember my mother to be a very pious woman, but she was never against other religions.
Helmut Kohl
Woman
Remember
Mother
Parents
Sense
Other
Religions
Never
She
Catholics
Were
Very
Pious
Against
Christians
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
Helmut Kohl
Leadership
Events
Shaping
Know
Go
Where
Wants
Interest
Deduce
Stands
Compass
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
Helmut Kohl
Matter
National
Past
Action
Solitary
Must
Individuals
Along
How
May
Decisions
Appear
Belong
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