Construction Quotes - Page 14

• When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.

  Russell Sherman

  Play, Issues, Echoes

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• The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wind, Sea, Feet

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• We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.

  Raoul Hausmann

  Artist, Play, Refusal

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• Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.

  Edmundo Desnoes

  Crush, Men, Egypt

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• I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Locks, Fuel, Pipeline

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• You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Redneck, Might

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• I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

  Emo Philips

  Construction Workers, Morse Code, Paranoid

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• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Block, Doe, Detours

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• I'm a big fan of fiction film where you have a story and you have to transform that into a visual language, basically working with actors and also transforming that into how you pronounce that in the visual language of the shots, the construction of the shots and the lighting. All of that appealed to me from the beginning of my career at the university. When I graduated from the university, I wanted to deal mainly with that, with the visual aspect of the movie.

  Dror Moreh

  Careers, Fans, Fiction

  Source: collider.com

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• A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

  Arthur Miller

  Order, Play, Unity

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• And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Believe, Space

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• A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Men, Sane

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• The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

  Warren Farrell

  Dirty, Men, Law

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• Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

  Douglas Massey

  Running, People, Groups

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

  Keith Ellison

  Jobs, Engineering, Environmental

  "Spearing Sacred Cows" by Rep. Keith Ellison, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2011.

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• I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fun, Yoga, Want

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• A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Wind, People

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• I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, People, Sculpture

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

  Billy Graham

  Humans, Conception, Human Beings

  Billy Graham (2013). “Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well”, p.95, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

  Richard Rohr

  Simple, Climbing, Games

  "Gender, God and Spirituality" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2012.

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• We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

  Thomas Marshburn

  Running, Fun, Space

  "Rocket To ISS Lifts Off With American, Russian, Canadian Astronauts" by Clara Moskowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

  Noam Chomsky

  Engineering, America, Social

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• Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, People, Giving

  "Full 'This Week' Interview Transcript: Russian President Vladimir Putin". abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2014.

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• There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Rocks, Degrees

  "Breaking all the rules" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  Denis Dutton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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