Kevin McCloud Quotes
Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
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You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
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Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.
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We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
