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"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

"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."

"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."

"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."

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

"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
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"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."

"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."

"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."

"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."

"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."

"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
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