Building Quotes - Page 35

• I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

  Richard Siken

  Giving, Monsters, Burning

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• Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Average, Magic

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• If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Kids, Space

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• We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

  Widad Akrawi

  Wall, War, Bridges

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• Lack of accountability weakens the environmental and health rights of citizens; it damages peace- building and reconciliation initiatives; impedes the implementation of global health policies; leads to the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity; and weakens democracy, justice, human rights, and international security.

  Widad Akrawi

  Loss, Rights, Ecosystems

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• We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

  Anita Borg

  Unique, Impact, Political

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• Empowering women is key to building a future we want

  Amartya Sen

  Keys, Empowering, Want

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• We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

  Michelle Rhee

  Kids, Sight, Skills

  "What Rhee's comments about her children say about her" by Valerie Strauss, voices.washingtonpost.com. January 22, 2011.

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• When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

  Rod Taylor

  Jobs, Actors, Firsts

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• Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Men, Israel, Iran

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• Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

  Robbie Kearns

  Rugby League, Towers, World

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• I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

  Roman Polanski

  Atmosphere, Twins, Menace

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• Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Mean, Boss

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• I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic postcard themes. I knew, however, from many visits to Boathouse Row, that at the same time, armies of rats were holding maneuvers in the basements.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Army, Night, Light

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• The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

  T. S. Eliot

  Forever, Church

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Light, Seems

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.

  Paul Ryan

  Law, Healthy, Weight

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: Obamacare is beyond repair". www.usatoday.com. January 6, 2015.

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• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Lawrence Klein

  Team, Order, United States

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• We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, Team, Long

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• I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

  Vince Carter

  Team, Book, Years

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• It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

  Chuck Noll

  Football, Team, Pleasant

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• Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

  Rosie Perez

  Team, Games, Play

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• What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

  Tom Hicks

  Team, Past, Use

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• It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

  Marcus Allen

  Team, Player, College

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• Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Years, Play

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