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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together. -- Uzo Aduba
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there. -- Buzz Aldrin
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful. -- Dustin Moskovitz
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. -- John Collison
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. -- John Engler
We should be focusing on building things that do not exist. -- Larry Page
I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff. -- William Gurstelle
I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program. -- Benjamin Carson
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. -- Ryan Holiday
I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before. -- Neil Gaiman
I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that. -- Chris Sharma
Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. -- Paige Butcher
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form. -- Will Self
My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other. -- Trent Reznor
There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. -- George Lucas
Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn't remarkable, it's invisible. -- Seth
So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done. -- Larry Ellison
I don't think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you're lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it's a miracle if you get paid to do it. -- James Patterson
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. -- Steve Case
You want to know how to be like indians? Live close to the earth. Get rid of some of your things. Help each other. Talk to the creator. Be quiet more. Listen to the earth instead of building things on it all the time. -- Kent Nerburn
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things. -- Jamie Oliver
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are interested in process and rights and getting the ideology correctly blended. And so there is sort of no really concrete plan for the future. -- Peter Thiel
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them. -- David Lynch
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. -- Jackson Pollock
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up? -- Peter Orner
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer. -- Steven Chu
Whatever good things we build end up building us. -- Jim Rohn
It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them. -- Steven Weber
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. -- Christo
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like. -- Paul Buchheit
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars. -- Will Oldham
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. -- Barbara Bush
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. -- Donald Judd
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
Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes. -- Demetri Martin
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children. -- Renzo Piano
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building. -- Carl Sandburg
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from. -- Thomas Heatherwick
Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot. -- Donald Judd
Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich. -- Kevin McCloud
We should be building great things that don't exist -- Larry Page
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things. -- Ronald Reagan
Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself. -- Anthony Evans
One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire. -- Ben Horowitz
It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail. -- Caterina Fake
Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life. -- Barbara R. Duguid
I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me. -- Colin Angle
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. -- Ally Carter
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. -- Robert Frost
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work. -- Dan Chaon
Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that. -- Steve Case
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. -- Sebastian Thrun
If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty. -- Jane Goodall
People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just. -- Aristotle
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. -- Steven Gerrard
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that. -- J. J. Abrams
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. -- Martha Graham
"You're All That" goes back to really building a life from the core of who you're. And all of those things are layers. That's just your authentic life. -- Paula White
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away. -- Alan Watts

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