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I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.
Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission that's not bad politics, that's robbery.
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
You be really careful.” – Sundown “Always. You have to be careful when you fly, or you end up smeared on the side of a building.” – Ren
How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.
The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.
The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.
There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.
Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
Let's keep refusing to accept the world as it is and insisting on building the world we dream of. Don't let the haters have the last word.
We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.
Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.
As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly.
I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.
I was always determined to make it as a footballer, but if things hadn't worked out, I'd have maybe followed my dad into the building industry.
I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.
We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.
Building mental strength is about regulating your emotions, managing your thoughts, and behaving in a positive manner, despite your circumstances.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.
I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.
When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.
You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being.
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.