Building Quotes
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
Vladimir Putin
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Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust.
David Livermore
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I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
Casey Neistat
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The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.
Sete Gibernau
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I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
Sara Blakely
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Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.
Eva Hoffman
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
Ernest Mandel
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Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.
David Adjaye
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For me, it's not about building bulk in my muscles; it's about staying tiny, strong, and lean.
Keauna McLaughlin
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A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.
George Sandys
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We all know that a church is not a building.
Robert H. Schuller
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The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
Edward Mazria
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
Zaha Hadid
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You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.
Raphael Saadiq
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When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.
Catherine Webb
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I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.
Bailey White
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
Catherynne M. Valente
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While we would not want to attribute every extreme weather event to climate change - the pattern is building and the costs are rising - the human costs and the financial costs.
Edward Davey
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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
Curtis W. Fentress
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The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new.
Woody Shaw
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You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
William McDonough
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I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period.
Branch Warren
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It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.
Cathy O'Neil
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The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. Bernie Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.
Ben Wikler