“The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.” WantYearsGovernmentUsedNextCitiesThousandResearchBuiltProgramUsed To BeManagersPropagandaGood ManHallsMuseumsTaxpayersExhibitionsGood Manager Author:Ai Weiwei
“When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.” PeopleIfsIdeasAsksResponsibilityStepsLimitsProjectsBuiltAskingNotesResponseFollowingEmployeeGood IdeasTaking ResponsibilityAsking Questions Author:Richard Branson
“Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.” FirstsTwoStatesLastsLeftReligiousUnitedUnited StatesMonthsMembersSpringBuiltOrganizationUnityChiefsBrokeMarchNeverthelessStaffChaoticMosquesAfrosChief Of Staff Author:Manning Marable
“After me and Daylyt built that relationship, they had a battle in the area and we finally wanted to go see one, live. We was cool with just watching it for a while until me and Daylyt got cool and I really wanted to go see it live.” WantedBattleBuiltAreas Author:Ab-Soul
“I was confident and in good shape when I first came to L.A. but nobody would cast me in any well written roles. People assumed based on my looks I was an asshole and a one trick pony. They never let me improv or do comedy. It wasn't until I built a shlubby exterior, which stood in stark contrast to my inner confidence that people gave me room to play.” PeopleFirstsWellsLooksPlayRoomsRolesComedyWrittenShapesBuiltLet MeCastsTricksContrastStarksExteriorWell WrittenPonies Author:Chris Pratt
“The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.” PrinciplesDemocracyMovementBuiltUniversality Author:George W. Bush
“[Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.” KnowsStillsIndividualStrongForceCasesTrumpSucceedUniqueBuiltBeing TrueBarackSpiteLatino Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.” KnowsWellsMatterResultsBrainBuiltLustGenesContraceptionPropagation Author:Richard Dawkins
“During the terrorist regime in Haiti in the 1990s, the CIA, under the administration of Bill Clinton, was reporting to Congress that oil shipments had been blocked from entering Haiti. That was just a lie. I was there. You could see the oil terminals being built and the ships coming in.” LyingBuiltBillsClintonCongressOilTerroristShipsAdministrationRegimesEnteringCiaHaitiBlocked Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't want people to see what I've been doing at Play Cloths for nine years and built from a streetwear independence standpoint through Japanese streetwear - I don't want that to be shifted into something else.” PeopleWantYearsPlayBuiltIndependenceNineStandpointNine Years Author:Pusha T
“There actually are buildings that existed in cyberspace before they built it.” BuildingBuiltCyberspace Author:Howard Rheingold
“There are actual communication systems being built to enable eye surgeons to get inside the eye, and vascular surgeons to get inside the arteries. You could see a social reaction in which people would want to regulate this technology because they are threatened by it, and thereby cause a lot of harm. There are several scenarios that are happening at once. The other scenario is that the Japanese are going for this in a big way.” PeopleWayWantBigsEyeSocialCausesTechnologyCommunicationHappeningsBuiltHarmReactionsThreatenedScenariosSurgeonsArteries Author:Howard Rheingold
“There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?” PeopleLevelsCompanyGroupsPositionIndustryHigherBuiltOkayOvercomingMinoritiesExecutivesDisadvantagesHigher LevelPosition Of PowerMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“The [Barack Obama] administration is sharing its knowledge, its expertise with the incoming administration. And this, to us, is a sign of encouragement, to continue the good cooperation that we have built between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany that is in our mutual interest.” StatesAmericaInterestUnitedUnited StatesBuiltEncouragementAdministrationBarackGermanyMutualRepublicCooperationUnited States Of AmericaExpertiseMutual Interest Author:Angela Merkel
“You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.” LooksTermBuiltAgentsInchesPyramidsFractionsAlignmentBonding Author:John Henrik Clarke
“People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsUseCertainCommonSeaLandBuiltJewMilesCommon SenseOverwhelmedFolkloreCanalsExodus Author:John Henrik Clarke
“Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid. Some people call him an enforcer droid. He has the ability to enforce things. That was what he was built for. He's tall. He has an intimidating frame.” PeopleWarStarsAbilitySecurityBuiltEmpiresTallBadassIntimidating Author:Alan Tudyk
“You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.” KnowsTwoCountrySchoolValuesBehindsKnow HowSuccessfulComputerMessagesBuiltDecadesIronPushingCurtainsPublic SchoolComputer ScienceDevelopersGdpEbaySkypeIron CurtainEstoniaEstonians Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.” ThinkingKnowsMadeBigsOrderCoursesBuiltDisappearStoresGravesGrainPyramidsPharaohs Author:Benjamin Carson
“Good, healthy democratic societies are built on three pillars: there's peace and stability, economic development, and respect for rule of law and human rights. And where all three are present, you stand a very good chance of making a go of it.” HumansLawThreeChanceRightsEconomicDevelopmentHealthyBuiltDemocraticVery GoodHuman RightsStabilityRule Of LawGood HealthPillarsDemocratic SocietyEconomic DevelopmentGood Chance Author:Kofi Annan
“Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.” IfsBigsPoliticalFeltSoundPresidentPolicyBuiltWeakSticksEstablishmentForeign PolicyEngagingAdversariesPresident ReaganLexiconPresident Kennedy Author:Barack Obama
“I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.” BelieveMovementIdentityParticularBuiltElectionNationalismCrudeTribalismEthnic Identity Author:Barack Obama
“I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that.” PeopleThinkingTryingTrumpBuiltElectionGood ThingsIncentives Author:Barack Obama
“Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.” FirstsWellsLittlesSaidImportantWholeUsedCommunityInterestingBreakSupportIndustryMajorsBuiltUnionsWorkersStrikesTechniqueBrokeChicagoThey SaidVery InterestingManufacturingCaterpillarsScabsPeoria Author:Noam Chomsky
“The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.” MenPhilosophyTogetherArtistOrderCultureSocialCommunityBuiltAnarchistSocial Order Author:Dorothy Day
“Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.” MenWritingWarSometimesDifficultNovelConflictBuiltWhy Me Author:Anna Quindlen
“I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.” WantNeedsI CanLanguageMy OwnSecurityKeysComputerBuiltCamerasStudiosBackgroundsTranslateSessionTechnicians Author:Edward Snowden
“On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.” WorldStatesDreamGovernmentCenturyFrontsBuiltOrganizationInternationalLocalsErasDigital21st CenturyTransparencyDefault Author:Chelsea Manning
“The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.” PoliticalViolenceMovementGunBuiltEnormousPolitical PowerGun ViolenceAnti Gun Author:Chris Murphy
“While there are many who feel that morality must be built into law, I believe that the elimination of transsexualism is not best achieved by legislation prohibiting transsexual treatment and surgery but rather by legislation that limits it and by other legislation that lessens the support given to sex-role stereotyping, which generated the problem to begin with.” FeelsBelieveProblemLawGivenI BelieveSexRolesSupportMoralityLimitsBuiltTreatmentSurgeryLegislationStereotypeEliminationTranssexuals Author:Janice Raymond
“Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.” SelfAmericaIdentityTrumpPromiseBuiltProgramPitySelf PityTrumpetsNational Identity Author:Susan Faludi
“If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.” PeopleIfsThinkingGovernmentInterestMistakeCuttingPolicyRevolutionTaxesBuiltRateMythologyRecoveryMassiveDoomedDeficitTax CutsInterest RateAusterityPuncture Author:Barack Obama
“We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.” MenMadeTwoDifferentSelfCountryDreamHandsCommonTrumpDadBuiltTownsMy DadHeritageLife ExperienceGrandfatherBusinessmanSmall BusinessMy GrandfatherColumbusIndianaSelf MadeDifferent LifeTwo Hands Author:Mike Pence
“America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.” AmericaGunBuiltGenocide Author:Jim Jarmusch
“The word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.” WayMindFirstsMeanTwoProblemHandsGivenSoundSpecialSolutionsStandardsBuiltRationalContradictionTwo HandsClappingImpasse Author:Huston Smith
“Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations investing in it. This means that it is extremely difficult to detect these assets in their pure form.” MeanFormDifficultCompanySuccessfulPureBuiltWesternInvestingInstanceCorporationsAssetsStolen Author:Garry Kasparov
“Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.” NeedsKindLastsBlackCommunityFourPolicyMassRacismBuiltDecadesDestroyedFallenManifestationBrownNeed A ChangeIncarcerationBlack CommunityMass Incarceration Author:John Legend
“The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.” KnowsCharacterBornSingingBuiltTraitsCharacter Trait Author:Ed Helms
“I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.” StudyBuiltArchitectureDiagrams Author:Paul Laffoley
“What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.” Too MuchStylePeriodsLateBuiltStrikesMisfortunes80sHideousToronto Author:William Gibson
“The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.” Has BeensPurposeReadingSpaceEuropeBuiltChainsBordersGiantsChaptersBookstoresMallsGongs Author:William Gibson
“I think Donald Trump is a master of moving on from losses when he suffered them, and if he can`t find a way in the short term to get the wall paid for by Mexico, I think he`ll Trumpet the fact that the wall is being built.” IfsThinkingWayFactsMovingTermLossMastersWallTrumpBuiltPaidMexicoShort TermTrumpets Author:Mark Halperin
“I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work.” ThinkingBookFatherVoiceStageParticularDadDegreesClothesBuiltMy DadSuitsPersona Author:Bruce Springsteen
“When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.” StillsYoungChurchLevelsDarknessBuiltTownsLocalsPalmsSmall TownIntimidating Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."” PeopleThinkingWantRealHoursBuiltWhat You WantAuthenticityPhrasesBeing RealAccentsInconsistent Author:Rob Lowe
“What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.” HumansKindHas BeensAbleBrainMysteryIllusionBuiltDeitiesHuman Brain Author:John Shelby Spong
“Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.” WorldFallThreeWindShotsBuiltTeenagerNutsThree ThingsColumnsFalling Off Author:John Oliver
“I think Peter Norman recuperated in the sense that people who knew who Peter Norman was, he built his character around the legacy of his family, in terms of what they taught him about equality and justice for all.” PeopleThinkingCharacterTermJusticeTaughtBuiltLegacyPeterEquality And JusticeJustice For All Author:John Carlos
“Why is it not possible to build a church in Saudi Arabia where as we in the Netherlands have almost 500 mosques being built; why is it not possible to buy or sell a Bible in any Muslim or most of the Muslim countries, whereas we can buy a Koran here on every street corner? This is the exact example of the fact that Islam is an intolerant society.” CountryFactsChurchStreetsExampleBuiltSellsIslamCornersArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisMosquesStreet CornersNetherlands Author:Geert Wilders
“I love having real conversations with entrepreneurs who have built their companies from the ground up, with nothing but their own drive, passion, and courage, and I'm constantly learning new things as I hear each one's unique journey.” RealPassionCompanyJourneyConversationUniqueBuiltEntrepreneurNew ThingsLearning NewLearning New ThingsConstantly LearningReal Conversation Author:Jessica Jackley