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"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."
Rem Koolhaas
"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."
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"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."
John Otto
"When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building."
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"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
John Engler
"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
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"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."
George Carlin
"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."
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"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
Ernst Zundel
"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."
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"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."
Carl Sandburg
"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."
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"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"
Tim Vine
"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'"
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"It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building."
Robert Venturi
"It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building."
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"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
Emeril Lagasse
"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
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"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
Fanny Burney
"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
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"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."
John Abizaid
"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."
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"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."
Richard Branson
"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."
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"For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it."
Camilla Belle
"For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it."
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"There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them."
Eugene Chadbourne
"There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them."
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"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."
Earl Blumenauer
"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."
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"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."
Gordon Brown
"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."
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"The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech."
Kenneth Rexroth
"The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech."
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"If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor."
Robert Metcalfe
"If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor."
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"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
Eric Allin Cornell
"I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back."
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"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."
Warren Farrell
"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."
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"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."
Minoru Yamasaki
"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."
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"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."
Ronald Biggs
"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."
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"I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do."
Terry Semel
"I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do."
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"I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution."
Sanford I. Weill
"I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution."
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"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
Frank Zappa
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
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"Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself."
Tim McGraw
"Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself."
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"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."
Louis Sullivan
"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."
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"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."
Bill Bruford
"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."
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"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."
John Bolton
"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."
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"I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that."
William Green
"I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that."
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"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."
Thomas Dolby
"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."
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"It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building."
Louis Sullivan
"It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building."
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"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."
Minoru Yamasaki
"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."
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"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."
Nicholas Meyer
"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."
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"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."
Justin Bieber
"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."
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"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."
Dexter Gordon
"It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also."
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"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
Juliette Lewis
"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."
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"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."
Anna Louise Strong
"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."
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"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."
Helmut Jahn
"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."
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"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."
John Henry Carver
"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."
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"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."
John Osborne
"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building."
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"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."
Ben Nicholson
"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."
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"In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect."
Arthur Erickson
"In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect."
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"But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive."
Wim Wenders
"But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive."
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"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
Minoru Yamasaki
"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
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"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
Johnny Rivers
"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."
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"I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building."
Sarah Chalke
"I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building."
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"The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program."
Janet Reno
"The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program."
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"What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on."
Benny Anderson
"What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on."
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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."
Cynthia Weil
"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."
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