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“Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.”

Real Courses Built Sells Golf Estates Golf Course

“The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.”

Self Whole Business Ego Built Satisfaction Vanity Crap Self-satisfaction

“God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.”

Home Wisdom Law Father Built Sacred Supreme Mysterious Temples Cosmic Architect

Book:Oration on the Dignity of Man

Source: Oration on the Dignity of Man

“I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.”

Looks Matter Stories School Church Nice Built Slave Generous Owners Housing Whips Shackles Slave Owners Free Food

Author:Michael Moore

“The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.”

Products Weapons Mass Built Destruction Responsible Global Warming Factories Melting Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Chrysler

Author:Michael Moore

“As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.”

Long Home Land Built Available Residents Colorado Family Home

Author:Gary Bauer

“I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.”

Thinking Has Beens Important Problem Stuff Internet Built Innovation

Author:Elon Musk

“The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.”

Ifs Mean Knowing Built Favors Insane Odds Not Knowing Rockets

Author:Elon Musk

“We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.”

People Men Needs Country America Young Color Citizens Men And Women Built Dependent Participation

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.”

Earth America Leader Balance Built Ultimate Checks Prize Inefficiency

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.”

People Way Wanted Courses Left Balance Built Golf Etc Golf Course Doing Right

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?”

Ifs Thinking World Stills States Earth America United United States Humorous Built Shopping Shopping Centers

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.”

People Different Enough Song Interest Numbers Week Tvs Built Areas Musical Like Me Freak Electric Pulling Rip

Author:Gary Numan

“We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.”

Should Looks Country Bigs Government Built Rejects Big Government

Author:Glenn Beck

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”

“A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.”

People World Said Reason Jobs Company Leader Our Lives Products Type Built Aspect Profit Valuable Billions Great Things Fluffy

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.”

Humans Persons Past Built Wander Denial Infant Meter

Author:Martha Beck

“We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.”

“If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.”

Ifs Business Worry Economy Built Fortune Campaigns Stealing Advertising Brands Agency Good Fortune Irritating Irritated Imitating Advertising Agencies Great Advertising Advertisement Negative

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”

Knows Wells Littles Long Ends Beauty Middle Built Phrases Handsome Beckett Sonatas

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.”

Should Opportunity Cases Built Areas Program Should Have Elites

Author:Bobby Orr

“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.”

Force Justice Violence Mountain Built Army Hiking Brows Fortresses

Author:Joseph Addison

“My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.”

People Lost Realizing Wall Happenings Built Adviser

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.”

People Men Real Guy Realizing Community Proud Built Drivers Italian Bus Cop Truck Mafia Working Man Fireman Aberration Truck Driver Italian American Bus Driver Being Italian

Author:Chazz Palminteri

“Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.”

People Knows Whole Film Can Do Company Streets Built Brands Touchstones

Author:Tyler Perry

“Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.”

Reality Successful Pieces Built Wide Being Successful Site Palaces

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.”

Needs Writing Song Rooms Self Esteem Havens Built Standing Out Niche Writing Love Writing Love Songs

Author:Adele

“I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.”

Thinking Years Force Class Struggle Progress Violence Majors Built Violent Ideology Communism Class Struggle

Author:Steven Pinker

“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.”

Inspirational Believe Form Success Winning I Believe Accepting Perception Built Insightful Compounds Accept Me Inspirational Celebrity

Author:Brad Pitt

“Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.”

Built Entertainment Theatre Boards

Author:Robert Plant

“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.”

Thinking Men Want Art Reason Reality Given Answers Highest Art Is Built Elementals

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.”

Writing Three Steps Stage Built Musical Prose Woven Textiles

Book:One-Way Street

Source: One-Way Street

“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”

People Knows Kids School Culture Literature Brain Talking Listening Messages High School Built Court Reunion Attending Prom High School Reunion School Reunion

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.”

Feels Looks Done Members Built Albums Brands Cuban Clans

Author:Raekwon

“Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Jesus Christ Sin Lord Jesus Christ Built Foundation Salvation Meaningful Repentance Sincere Lord Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Easter

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.”

Inspirational Sometimes Success Challenges Inspiring Failing Built Frustration Business Success Catastrophe Road To Success Fear Of Failure Success And Failure Success Failure Failure Inspirational Inspirational Success Failure Fear Of Success Frustration In Life

Author:Sumner Redstone

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

Character Nations Imagination Four Human Nature Built Independence Structure Individuality Individualism Initiative Cornerstones Character Education Personality Flaws

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.”

Wanted Failing Team Built Phenomenal

Author:Eric Ries

“The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.”

Company Movement Built Impact Significant

Author:Eric Ries

“I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.”

Ifs Mean Persons Law Pay Divine Consequence Built Laws Of Nature Retribution

Author:Pat Robertson

“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.”

World Wells Long Character Helping Stories Action Stars Security Adventure Drama Concepts Built Train Missions Defined Range Performing Exploration Transportation Format Wagons Yorktown

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.”

Years Littles Eye Careers Creation Built Fingers Myth General Public Svengali

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.”

I Can Journey Built Partners Romney

Author:Ann Romney

“At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.”

States Today America Chance United United States Fields Built Producers Steel Corn Mills Dynamics Indiana

Author:Mitt Romney

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.”

Men World Nations Men And Women Built Slave Saved Ships Airplane Descendants Havana Mayflower Slave Ships

Author:Marco Rubio

“Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.”

Men Earth Values Given Struggle Hero Conflict Built Obstacles Chosen Heroic

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.”

Men House Born Rich Highest Built Died Bin Laden Rich Man Filthy Specifications Filthy Rich

Author:Salman Rushdie

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”

Men Progress Civilization Built

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”

Needs Should Art Purpose Modern Built Missions Wide Arise Accomplished Tall Museums Sculpture Accommodate Modern Art Installation Mission Accomplished

Author:Jerry Saltz

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