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One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' -- Julie Burchill
Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. -- Noam Chomsky
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. -- Julie Burchill
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character. -- Shawn Wayans
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. -- Daniel Yergin
I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take. -- Ricky Ponting
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. -- Michio Kaku
The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate. -- Martin Rees
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt. -- Jonathan Sacks
'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it! -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that the United States was likely to be the extant superpower for several decades to come. Few anticipated how quickly the neoconservative project would run into the sands - or that China would rise so quickly. -- Martin Jacques
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction. -- Patton Oswalt
Build up virtue, and you master all. -- Laozi
If you're not scoring the frustrations build up. -- Wayne Rooney
Never build yourself up by tearing another down. -- Larry Winget
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Build up your faith while starving the fears. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up. -- Andre Leon Talley
Whatever good things we build end up building us. -- Jim Rohn
We're gonna build up our forces, including the Army. -- Donald Trump
Build other females up and only compete with yourself. -- Claudia Black
I wanted to build up a name for myself. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
You don't build yourself up by putting someone else down. -- Mitch Mitchell
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. -- Knute Rockne
Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories. -- Jung Woo
Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment. -- Swami Vivekananda
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. -- Will Rogers
It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. -- Haruki Murakami
Only those who are built up can build others up, amen? -- Joseph Prince
To build up a future, you have to know the past. -- Otto Frank
We do not fight to tear down but to build up. -- Lisa Bevere
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. -- John Steinbeck
I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection. -- Nicholas Hoult
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. -- Tom Peters
People build themselves up before you even have to deal with them. -- Russell Simmons
If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something. -- lecrae
That's why breakups take two or three times- to build up immunity. -- Jerry Seinfeld
God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back. -- Gloria Gaynor
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. -- Calvin Coolidge
Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows. -- Swami Vivekananda
I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do. -- RZA
You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you. -- Frank Gehry
As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up. -- Galit Breen
Do not leave yourself or your family unprotected against financial storms... Build up savings. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two. -- Deborah Day
You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb! -- Daniel Tosh
Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down. -- Lysa TerKeurst
We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up. -- Stephen Pagliuca
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience -- Bridget Riley
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. -- Bridget Riley
There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again. -- Jon Foreman
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. -- John Harrison
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? -- Jesse Helms
We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day. -- Zig Ziglar
It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down. -- Stephen King
Decide today to design and build the ideal relationship in your life. It's up to you. -- Brian Tracy
When I'm all grown up, come what may,I'll build a boat to carry me away -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments. -- Robert Moog
I think there's still room for compelling voices to build up and get a great following. -- Norman Pearlstine
I want to build up my philosophy... my philosophy with kung fu is to respect people. -- Jackie Chan
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. -- Jayne Anne Phillips
If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit. -- Joel Brown
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. -- W. Somerset Maugham
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. -- Tony Dungy
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic. -- Kenzaburo Oe
You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself. -- Daisaku Ikeda
I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again. -- Marina Keegan
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up. -- Michel de Montaigne
You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant -- Mick Jagger
Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age. -- Warren Buffett
I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at. -- Action Bronson
It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down. -- Drake
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. -- Dorothy Day
While we are deploying troops in their thousands, we lose the chance to build up their basic skills. -- Des Browne
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up. -- Philippa Perry
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. -- Spike Lee
I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke. -- Don Rickles
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! -- Charles Colson
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. -- Catherine Opie
Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things. -- Dennis Crowley
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it. -- John Kasich
Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum. -- Susan Collins
I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within. -- Hayley Williams
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks. -- Madame de Stael
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. -- Carly Fiorina
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. -- Barry Hannah
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. -- Barry Hannah
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. -- Eamon de Valera
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show. -- Julie Burchill
Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury. -- Sophie Kinsella
I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience. -- Alain Prost
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. -- Helen Suzman
Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' -- Sam Kinison
My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward. -- Vijay Singh
It may take you months or even a few years to build up an adequate emergency savings fund. That's okay. -- Suze Orman
I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work. -- Gil Kane
When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album. -- Jackson Harris
Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song. -- Colbie Caillat
Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state -- Robert E. Lee
This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em. -- Cassandra Rose Clarke
If we could build an economy that would use things rather than use them up, we could build a future. -- Ellen MacArthur
Land values are going up a lot in Sydney, but it's feasible to build because prices are going up, too. -- Harry Triguboff
People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog. -- Wayne Gretzky
We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us. -- Pope Francis
I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others. -- Marianne Williamson
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. -- Bruce Feiler
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up. -- Anthony Foxx
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. -- Bonnie L. Oscarson
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. -- Marian Seldes
Never depend on those luck moments â?? they are gifts â?? but instead always build your own back-up plan. -- Bear Grylls
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you. -- Charles Caleb Colton
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done. -- Dakota Blue Richards
Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal. -- Steve-O
People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity. -- Arthur Bloch
To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future. -- Akio Morita
Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up. -- Hudson Taylor
I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength. -- Rick James
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. -- Johnny Ramistella

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