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They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. -- George C. Wallace
It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start. -- Robert Benchley
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us. -- David Walker
Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you. -- Jason Schwartzman
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. -- Kevin Cashman
A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life. -- Claire Denis
SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment, but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day. -- Scarlett Johansson
Education is all a matter of building bridges. -- Ralph Ellison
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. -- Sebastian Coe
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T. D. Jakes
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight. -- Janine Benyus
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America. -- Bev Perdue
We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. -- Joichi Ito
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut. -- Adam Davidson
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. -- Warren Rudman
In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world. -- Ahmed Zewail
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties. -- Thomas Frank
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China. -- Michael Bloomberg
My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer. -- Henry Petroski
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz. -- Peter T. King
I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge. -- Richard M. Nixon
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.' -- Jay Carney
With commitment and vision, it is possible to build a bridge between potential partners and communities whose work is of relevance to peace-building initiatives. -- Widad Akrawi
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built. -- Frantz Fanon
I didn't want to even stand next to any high rise building as long as I lived... I didn't even want to go over a bridge. -- Stephen King

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