Built Quotes - Page 11

• I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

  Andy Rooney

  Atheist, Wish, Hoaxes

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Sincerely, Andy Rooney”, p.226, Hachette UK

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• I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Home, Player

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• I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Dream, Reality, America

  "Jean-Claude Van Damme Re-Evaluates Career: 'I Will Never Do Another Movie I Would Not Like'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2008.

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• You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Trying, Bricks

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• Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

  Tony Curtis

  Hollywood, Sensational, Merry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Calling

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• I think I should be in a film called 'Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical the ship will be built out of my own hair.

  Noel Fielding

  Thinking, Space, Hair

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• Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

  Little Richard

  Block, Rocks, Devil

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

  James Cagney

  Dad, Stress, Ideas

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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• I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

  Franka Potente

  Strong, Thinking, House

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

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• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

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• It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

  Edward Burns

  Dream, Wall, Light

  FaceBook post by Edward Burns from Sep 29, 2011

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• In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Complaining, Top Gear

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• There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

  B. J. Novak

  Thinking, Differences, Feelings

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.78, Vintage

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• Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

  Jeff Beck

  Thinking, Guitar, Upset

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• The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

  William Devane

  Stopping, Aging, Process

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• Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

  Dakota Fanning

  Responsibility, Doe, Moments

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• Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

  Morgan Brittany

  People, Pedestal, Want

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• What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Use, Moments, Knows

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 12, 2011

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• He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Rights, Justice

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• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Success, Children, Father

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• These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge.  The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components.  That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.

  Tarleton Gillespie

  Assessment, Common Sense, Experts

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• This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Country, Honor, Bus

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• This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.

  Lyn Hejinian

  Ideas, Mourning, Development

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