Building Quotes - Page 3

• Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

  Jim Hightower

  Dog, Political, Politics

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Legends

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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• So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

  Judy Chicago

  Education, Sisterhood, Language

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• Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

  Alvar Aalto

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

  Mel Gibson

  Family, Children, Home

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• A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

  Helmut Jahn

  Cities, Architecture, Walks

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• People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.

  Sarah Palin

  Zero, People, Religion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 09, 2010.

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• Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

  Larry Niven

  Technology, Space, Should Have

  Space.com Interview with S. James Blackman, February 10, 2000.

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• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

  Richard Meier

  Rome, Cities, Frozen

  "Building in Rome, no holiday / The eternal city wants to keep its architecture fixed in time, but the Ara Pacis marks a renaissance of modern era" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Hard Work, Technology, Debugging

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• At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

  Martin Puryear

  Art, Together, Sculpture

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• The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

  Russell Lynes

  Names, Live For Today, Gone

  Russell Lynes (1963). “The Domesticated Americans”, New York : Harper

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Food, Giving, Fuel

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• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

  Arthur Rock

  Money, People, Not Interested

  Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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• Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Knowing, Team Building

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• If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Doe, Looks

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• Stupidity is the basic building block of the universe.

  Frank Zappa

  Block, Stupidity And Ignorance, Hydrogen

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Witty, Block

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• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspiring, Morning, America

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.370, Pelican Publishing

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• Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

  Don Rickles

  Trying, Bars, Empires

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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

  Block, Stupid, Humor

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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

  John Engler

  Work, Winning, Decision

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