Building Quotes - Page 38

• Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert at creating a quietly building sense of dread while claiming to do something as straightforward as describe lost films—like those conversations you have in which you realize only too late that what you actually talking about and what you think you are talking about are not the same thing at all. With Rombes, Two Dollar Radio deftly demonstrates why it is rapidly becoming the go-to press for innovative fiction.

  Brian Evenson

  Smart, Book, Thinking

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• I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

  Henry Cavill

  Character, Parent, Sides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

  Shakira

  Careers, Sun, Bricks

  "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• 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.

  Sarah Chalke

  Moving, Thinking, Tuesday

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• I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

  Sally Kellerman

  Careers, Idiot, Term

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• An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take.

  Howard Cosell

  New York, Cities, Games

  "Monday Night Football", December 08, 1980.

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• My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

  Ty Pennington

  Art, Jobs, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

  Ty Pennington

  House, Tree, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

  Walton Goggins

  School, Light, People

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• I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

  Pamela Anderson

  Home, Heart, Two

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• I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

  Trevor Linden

  Book, Nhl, Seeing

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• The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Important, Pieces, Landscape

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• It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

  Norman Foster

  Effort, Looks, Effortless

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• Cloud computing is actually a spectrum of things complementing one another and building on a foundation of sharing. Inherent dualities in the cloud computing phenomenon are spawning divergent strategies for cloud computing success. The public cloud, hybrid clouds, and private clouds now dot the landscape of IT based solutions. Because of that, the basic issues have moved from 'what is cloud' to 'how will cloud projects evolve'.

  Chris Howard

  Clouds, Issues, Foundation

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• I do believe it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics for the World Trade Center Tower Seven, building seven, which collapsed in on itself.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Believe, Fire, Towers

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• But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Strong, Science

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

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• It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... spreading DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. ... It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer if it were raining floppy discs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Character, Garden

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Party, Book, Politics

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Thinking, Race

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, World, Ferris Wheels

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strong, Home, Unity

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• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

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• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

  Katherine Dunham

  Museums, Air, Trying

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Home

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.

  Aga Khan IV

  Trying, Together, Looks

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