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  • We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building. -- Orville Wright
  • Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings. -- Thom Mayne
  • We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves. -- Jane Jacobs
  • When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. -- John Henry Holland
  • The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them. -- Theodore Zeldin
  • We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment. -- George Pataki
  • I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views -- John Cheever
  • The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money. -- Jonathan Meades
  • I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble. -- Donna Tartt
  • I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle. -- Jacques Tati
  • We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings. -- Ken Yeang
  • One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town. -- Christopher Alexander
  • Together we are building a new Mexico. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
  • We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace. -- Anna Lindh
  • I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings. -- Haile Gebrselassie
  • Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things. -- Christo
  • You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia. -- Kevin Rudd
  • I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies. -- Ryne Sandberg
  • Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
  • Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F. Kennedy
  • No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. -- Marc Andreessen
  • At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. -- Robert Scoble
  • There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. -- John Bolton
  • Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years. -- Amity Shlaes
  • There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have. -- Lamar Alexander
  • One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building. -- Joseph Rykwert
  • There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. -- Jane Smiley
  • I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country. -- Philip Rosedale
  • Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building. -- Harvey Korman
  • New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. -- Walter Tevis
  • Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. -- Emil Ruder
  • When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew. -- Lauren Groff
  • My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building. -- Ann Coulter
  • Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership. -- Marco Arment
  • All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order. -- Robert Kennedy
  • Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. -- John Ashbery
  • Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance. -- Jim Horning
  • We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration. -- Romano Prodi
  • I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. -- Jamie Chung
  • No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult -- Marc Andreessen
  • God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country. -- Nelson Mandela
  • The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology. -- Aaron Levie
  • The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. -- Socrates
  • To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new. -- Dan Millman
  • New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business. -- Georgina Chapman
  • For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society. -- Joseph Stalin
  • the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. -- Craig L. Rice
  • The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one. -- Daniel Coyle
  • 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
  • I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. -- George Carlin
  • You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. -- Kenneth Lonergan
  • Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. -- Barack Obama
  • About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues. -- Richard Branson
  • 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
  • Every day is a new beginning, the building of a habit. Every action is a step in some direction. There is no pause in living. -- Anna White
  • When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? -- Fay Wray
  • WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence -- Steven Biko
  • We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new. -- Mao Zedong
  • The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. -- Bill Gates
  • I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it. -- Al Franken
  • I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start. -- Rick Riordan
  • At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership. -- Barton Gellman
  • I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment. -- David Edelstein
  • Relationship networking is about who you know and more importantly, who knows you. Building the right network can open new doors to future success in your business. -- Heidi
  • We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.' -- Bill Maher
  • There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net. -- Howard Schultz
  • In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit. -- Isser Harel
  • To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remain focused on building cutting-edge technology and introducing new and innovative product offerings. -- Jon Oringer
  • When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. -- Marc Andreessen
  • It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies -- Zaha Hadid
  • When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!' -- Don Rickles
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