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As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Will Self
Building
Machine
Render
Sport
Existence
Blueprint
Social
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
William Scranton
You
Water
Plant
Power
Building
Down
Saw
Except
Power Plant
Like
Know
Looked
Walking
Happened
Which
Your
Floor
Basement
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Started
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.
Wim Wenders
You
Cinema
Will
Building
Think
Thinking
Would
Would-Be
Spirit
Something
Protect
Protectionism
Around
Fence
Survive
Cannot
Help
European
Grave
Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.
Winnie Byanyima
Peace
Rights
Prosperity
Poison
Important
Building
Human Rights
Shared
Development
Between
Xenophobia
Because
Building Blocks
Blocks
Very
Human
Nations
Cooperation
Whenever I've done jobs, whether it's an acting job or writing job, there's an aspect of it that feels like you help build your piece of it, and then you watch as someone takes it, and they finish building it.
Wyatt Cenac
You
Writing
Job
Build
Building
Jobs
Someone
Finish
Takes
Feels
Like
Piece
Done
Whenever
Whether
Then
Aspect
Acting
Your
Help
Watch
I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
Yelena Baturina
First
Building
Own
State
Enterprise
Russia
Entrepreneurs
Private
Private Enterprise
Began
Reforms
Initiated
Among
Start
I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
Yishan Wong
Great
Loyalty
Game
People
Better
Building
Same Thing
Think
Bit
Great Movie
More
Except
Generally
Like
Making
Lot
Same
Any
Different
Want
Movie
Video
Video Game
Product
Sequel
User
Thing
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
Yolanda Adams
Life
Education
Family
You
Key
College
Building
Data
Take
Period
Well-Rounded
How
Were
Person
Going
Information
Process
Use
Teaches
Helps
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
Zaha Hadid
Time
Blame
Women
Architecture
Men
Long
Long Time
Building
Difficult
Think
Society
No Reason
Particularly
Industry
Clients
Were
Male
Want
Reason
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Zaha Hadid
People
Building
Design
Say
OK
People Say
Architectural
Becomes
Icon
Icons
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Zaha Hadid
Great
Progress
Building
Nation
Sense
Unbroken
Great Sense
Nation-Building
Iraq
Up
Optimism
Moment
Belief
Growing
Growing Up
I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Reality
Writing
Building
Think
Bits
Entertaining
Oneself
Habit
Taking
Childhood
Interesting
Them
Extension
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
Zubin Mehta
World
Will
Long
Building
Settlements
Keep
No stuffing is complete without chopped onion and celery - they're the building blocks. If you want to deepen the flavor, consider adding leeks, sage, and/or hardy greens.
Claire Saffitz
You
Building
Adding
Consider
Complete
Onion
Stuffing
Without
Sage
Building Blocks
Blocks
Celery
Greens
Want
Flavor
Chopped
Deepen
Hardy
I love the building and the history. I understand not many people like me have played there. But the aim is not to conform to that building. It's to bring the Albert Hall into my world.
Kano
Love
Me
History
People
World
Building
Aim
I Love
Like
Hall
Understand
Conform
Many
Played
Albert
Bring
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.
Roger Scruton
Beautiful
Government
Hate
Better
Building
Response
Commission
Ended
Storm
Chair
Appointment
I would argue that the charter schools are really good at building programming and curriculum around the issues and the interests of the kids that they serve.
Charlie Baker
Good
Building
Programming
Kids
Would
Charter
Charter Schools
Argue
Schools
Around
Issues
Curriculum
Really
Interests
Serve
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to protect people from their own temptations.
Zephyr Teachout
People
Job
Building
Own
Punish
Those
Constitutional
Temptations
Structure
Structures
Badly
Protect
Behave
Just
Who
Actually
The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.
Hillary Clinton
You
Building
Relationships
Colleagues
Insight
Something
Had
Importance
Until
Issues
Senate
Trying
Behind
Elected
Create
Much
Coalition
Ever
Among
Championing
Serving
Started
Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'
Taboo
God
Best
You
People
Ego
I Am
Hype
Building
Guys
Industry
Am
Up
Yes
Get
Gods
You Guys
Oh
Just
Being
Your
Believing
Started
So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
Harold Ford, Jr.
Hope
Build
Building
Ownership
Society
Broad
Some
About
Support
Involving
Talked
Been
Bill
Washington
Larger
Things
Bipartisan
The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.
Kwasi Kwarteng
World
Building
Before
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Striking
Spent
He
Between
Concerns
Years
Contrast
Biggest
Figure
Manufacturing
Who
Billionaire
The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.
Emma Walton Hamilton
Building
Kids
Give
Building Blocks
Blocks
Arts
Which
Then
Play
We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.
Miguel McKelvey
Phone
Building
Booths
Know
Make
Conference
Rooms
Successful
Number
Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
You
Water
Country
Building
Pumping
Resourceful
Considerably
Out
Lies
Born
Netherlands
Through
Know
Well
Been
Salty
Wall
Dutch
Literally
Process
Ingenious
Much
Sea
Level
Below
What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.
Santiago Calatrava
Walls
Build
Building
Something
Instead
Opposite
Separating
Bridge
Bridges
Connects
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