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the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.
Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.
Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.
Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.
Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.