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" And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans. "
Special
Development
Souls
" And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city. "
Lot
Like
Interesting
" And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole. "
Build
City
Design
" And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream. "
American
Ship
American Dream
" Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. "
Greatest
Cities
Architecture
" I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline. "
Living
Sleep
New York
" I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. "
Mountains
Moves
Dr
" I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. "
Like
New York
New
" I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. "
Design
Important
Live
" It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century. "
Bring
Beautiful
City
" It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment. "
Responsibility
Wonderful
Moment
" It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. "
Me
Touched
Project
" Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero. "
Us
Tower
Planning
" Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. "
More
Life
Interesting
" Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. "
Future
Life
Human
" The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play. "
Balance
Trying
Balls
" There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here. "
People
Now
Living
" There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private. "
Competition
Trees
Moving
" The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. "
Government
May
Happen
" To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. "
Meaningful
History
Architecture
" We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred. "
Site
Came
Sacred
" Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is. "
City
People
Sky
" Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site. "
Space
See
You
" We will work with everybody for the good of New York. "
Work
Good
New
" When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. "
Up
Kid
Get
" Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. "
Architecture
Winning
Competition
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