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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. -- John Osborne
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. -- Tadao Ando
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. -- Ben Katchor
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? -- Nellie McKay
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it. -- Cameron Mackintosh
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
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. -- Alan Davies
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
People have grown fond of me, like some old building. -- Katharine Hepburn
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. -- Katharine Hepburn
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. -- Rumi
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. -- Jim Harrison
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing. -- Bill Dixon
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it. -- Rumi
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody. -- Richard Moe
Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there. -- Sanjay Dutt
I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys. -- Donnie Fritts
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice. -- Joseph Alleine
It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new. -- Andy Barrie
The place smelled like Sam -- or, I guess, he smelled like the store. Like ink and old building and something more leafy than coffee but less interesting than weed. It was all very ... erudite. I felt surrounded by conversations I had no interest in participating in. -- Maggie Stiefvater
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. -- Delia Ephron
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. -- Herb Caen
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. -- John F. Kennedy
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
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. -- Max Muller
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high. -- Florence Henderson
It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses. -- Helge Ingstad
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year. -- James Howard Kunstler
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. -- Kathleen Turner
The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. -- Tom Morello
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way. -- Christopher Alexander
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! -- George Bailey
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
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
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
My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course. -- Arnold Palmer
If I had to do it all over again, rather than build an old style type of business, I would have started building a network marketing business. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway. -- Alice Sebold

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