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Building Quotes

I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up – I didn’t have an agent or anything. It was for ‘Chicago.’ There were probably three hundred people there.

– Kate Levering

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They’re building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

– Jim Hunt

‘The X Factor’ seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it’s not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can’t imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on ‘The X Factor.’

– Jools Holland

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

– Kim Jong-un

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

– Koichi Tanaka

We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, ‘How do you break so many stories?’ it’s because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

– Kara Swisher

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

– Marc Andreessen

There were a few models who used to stay close to my building. I used to admire them and tell my friends that I did. Those models told me get into modeling.

– Juhi Chawla

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

– Maajid Nawaz

If you’re too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that’s what this is for. It’s about building confidence and that’s what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

– Khloe Kardashian

Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

– Kate Williams

I am a serious businesswoman. I don’t enjoy being out there on TV; it’s not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

– Jennifer Flavin

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

– Katherine Dunham

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

I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

– Karolina Kurkova

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One of the top causes of startup death – right after cofounder problems – is building something no one wants.

– Kathryn Minshew

Rebuilding a network is a slow, brick-by-brick process. It’s not just creating a hit show – it’s building shows to back up that hit show; it’s creating an identity of success so that people want their shows on your network.

– Leslie Moonves

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

– Jalal Talabani

Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online – and it’s going to make a huge difference to Causes. You are building a monument to yourself and the things that are important to you.

– Joe Green

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it’s achievable; anyone can do it.

– Kevin McCloud

I’m not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

– Kate Hudson

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

– Lil Wayne

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

– Jim Ratcliffe

I am all for greening tall buildings, but I’m also very keen to note that greening a building doesn’t cope with the problem of the tall building in the texture of the city.

– Joseph Rykwert

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

I’m building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

– Magic Johnson

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam’s Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called ‘containment,’ but the question is, containment of what?

– Michael Ignatieff

I’ve spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

– Kevin Harrington

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

– Kevin McCloud

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