Towers Quotes - Page 16

• Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.

  George Stephanopoulos

  President, Loyalists, Intensity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Tv Shows

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, Risk

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• I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

  David Shuster

  Zero, People, Manhattan

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• Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Long Ago, Should Have

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  W. G. Sebald

  Clouds, Views, Perspective

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Emigrants”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257 bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

  Jennifer Niven

  Looks, Bumps, World

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.89, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mars, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!

  Gordon Ramsay

  Bridges, Imagine, Headlines

  Source: www.esquireme.com

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• I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Artist, Eight, California

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Snow, Friendly

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

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• I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.

  Liv Tyler

  Hard Work, Two, Trying

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• When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

  Anthony Trollope

  Strong, Wall, Ivy

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Barchester Towers: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

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• Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Life Is Good, Ivy

  "Obama's Egghead Economic Saboteurs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 8, 2011.

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• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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• You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

  Taylor Lautner

  Morning, Thinking, Airports

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• I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

  David LaChapelle

  Vegas, Eiffel Tower, Las Vegas

  "David LaChapelle’s ‘Still Life’: Celebrity Photographer On Bullying, Fame And Manic Depression (INTERVIEW, PHOTOS)". Interview with Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2012.

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• If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

  Franz Kafka

  Climbing, Hiking, Tower Of Babel

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago

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• I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.

  Daphne Guinness

  Lonely, Sometimes, Spinsters

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• I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus, I'll look out the window and say, 'OK, there's the Tower of London, there's Buckingham Palace, there's Big Ben,' and if it all takes about five minutes, perfect. I've seen all of it and I can go home.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Country, Home, People

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• I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Banking, Knows, One Thing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election.

  Chris Hayes

  Media, Rumor, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Saudi Arabia, Kingdoms, Threat

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

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• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Luxury, Soul, Room Service

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