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Building Quotes


"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."


"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."


"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."


"I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it."


"The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century."


"It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building."


"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."


"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."


"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."


"I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building."


"We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons."


"I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that."


"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."


"Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area."


"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."


"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."


"I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that."


"Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together."


"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"


"What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars."


"It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building."


"Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana."


"The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech."


"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."


"Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!"


"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."


"And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb."


"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing."


"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."


"The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving the building of counters or a system like that."


"The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy."


"But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity."


"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."


"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."


"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."


"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."
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