My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. … - Carol Ross Barney

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I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know.

Carol Ross Barney

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

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If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The only way to do that is to live more densely than Americans are living right now.

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You look at energy use in the U. S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

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The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

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I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

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My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

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