Edward Mazria quotes

“The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.”
-- Edward Mazria

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“Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project contained a good blend of creative sustainable design elements. The solar room for heating and ventilation was particularly creative and convincing.”
-- Edward Mazria

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“Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies.”
-- Edward Mazria

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“We tend to rush toward the complex when trying to solve a daunting problem, but in this case, simplicity wins. Better buildings, responsible energy use and renewable energy choices are all we need to tackle both energy independence and climate change,”
-- Edward Mazria

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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to”

“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”

“A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.”

“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.”

“But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”

“Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.”

“I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.”

Source : "The Doyenne Of The Drawing Room" by Charlotte Curtis, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 1981.