Walls Quotes
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
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I can see the brave face you put on is all a facade. Allow me to tear downs those walls of deceit for you.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I never think that walls can protect you.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
