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Building Quotes


"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."


"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."


"I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."



"The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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



"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"I collect clothes - they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program."


"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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