Ray Nagin Quotes

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

The place needs a complete overhaul.

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I've always admired the kind of guy who moves into a place and restores it. Thanks to my efforts, the guy who moves into mine will have a chance to do just that.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I want to rebuild America.

Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

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.

We are out to rebuild the world.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

We will continue to renew and redefine Sony Pictures.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

If we can rebuild the electric grid of Iraq, we can do it here at home.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.