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I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

— Sylvester Stallone

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

— Gordon Parks

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

— Tadao Ando

I think architecture has to be a gift.

— Jean Nouvel

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

— Maya Lin

To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.

— Deontay Wilder

As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

— Amartya Sen

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

— Zaha Hadid

It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.

— Morten Tyldum

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg