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Building Quotes
"Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples."
144
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
58
"Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement."
57
"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."
56
"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
49
"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"
47
"We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building."
45
"In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships."
45
"You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within."
44
"When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking."
44
"The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it."
43
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
43
"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company."
43
"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."
42
"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."
42
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
42
"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."
41
"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."
41
"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."
41
"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
41
"The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list."
41
"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
40
"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."
39
"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."
39
"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!"
39
"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."
39
"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."
39
"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."
38
"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
38
"I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building."
37
"The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech."
37
"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."
37
"They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia."
37
"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."
36
"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
36
"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
36
"Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building."
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