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“Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one day whites and blacks can be real friends, but right now the country ain't built that way.”

Way Mean Real Country Causes Black White Right Now One Day Equal Built Concerned Bases Being Real Black And White Real Friends Maybe One Day

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]”

Found Left Cities Built Bricks Marble Augustus Augustus Caesar

Author:Suetonius

“I built my entire life on the idea of independence.”

Ideas Built Independence

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.”

Mankind Pride Built Extremes Contempt Disrespect Incivility

Author:John G. Zimmerman

“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Has Beens Past Given Future Built Our Past

Book:Sing Out the Glory

Source: Sing Out the Glory

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.”

Should Children Able School Order Teach Study Teacher Plans Comfort Conversation Built Prison Convenient Merriment

Book:Tolstoy on Education

Source: Tolstoy on Education

“A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.”

Results Views Months Built Constitution Compromise Brilliance Wrangling

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.”

House Built Lawyer

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.”

Made Would Be Humour Personality Built Red Labels Facility Realised Ginger

Author:Catherine Tate

“I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.”

Fronts Bird Built Fishes Woods Ponds Just Listen Porch Cabins Birdsong Front Porches Cabin In The Woods

Author:Johnny Cash

“I don't mind a gut. In fact, I would prefer a guy to have a gut than be too built.”

Mind Facts Guy Built Guts

Author:Liz Vassey

“I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.”

People Thinking Used Built Hollywood Theatre Old Days

Author:Bill Nighy

“There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.”

Country Shows Violence Lovers Evidence Built Destructive Brutal Obsessive Clinging

Author:Bob Herbert

“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”

Thinking Felt Space Air Special Painting Comfortable Built Studios Decent

Author:Peter Doig

“If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.”

Ifs Done Built Bridges

Author:Adam Carolla

“I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.”

Thinking Way Feels Trying Littles Ideas Feelings Certain Understanding Sound Darkness Comfortable Understood Built Areas Pops Intuition Confusion Things In Life Love Feeling Images Of Love

Author:David Lynch

“No state legislature ever built a great university.”

States Built University Legislature State Legislatures

Author:James E. Rogers, Jr.

“Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built”

Country Nations Impossible Built

Author:Michelle Obama

“Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.”

Built Application Fascination Mixing

Author:Blake Michael

“Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.”

Persons I Can Sometimes Easy Watches Seeing Couple Built Regard Mutual Lasting Blindness Lasting Love

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.”

Long Matter Whole Church Religious Bears Built Faithful Reasoning Logical Documents Contradictory Anything And Everything Logical Reasoning

Author:Adolf Hitler

“You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.”

Giving Mind School Belief Can Do Natural College Dad High School Built Determination Foundation My Dad Credit Mindset Dues Speed Coaches

Author:Robert Griffin III

“The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.”

May Government Today School Lying Education Quality Responsibility Building Keys Tomorrow Built India Education Today Gujarat

Author:Narendra Modi

“'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.”

Technology Talent Built Tradition India Trade Brands Governance Tourism

Author:Narendra Modi

“The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.”

Men Streets Building He Man Built Thirds Twenties Corners Bottles Avenues Caps Turkish Eclectic Massachusetts Embassy

Author:George W. S. Trow

“Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.”

Character Language Built Plot Tickets

Author:Aimee Bender

“I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.”

Stories Novel Building One Day Built Medieval Cathedrals Blown Away

Author:Ken Follett

“Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

Trying Remember Focus Wall Built Bricks

Author:Will Smith

“A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas.”

People Needs Sports Integrity Built Agendas Carrie Artificial Athletics

Author:Chris Crutcher

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.”

Believe Hard Individual Responsibility Taught Hard Work Built Foundation Despite Resentment Individual Responsibility

Author:Susana Martinez

“Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.”

Believe Built Despite Resentment

Author:Susana Martinez

“I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.”

Knows Jobs Company Higher Taxes Built Frustration Small Business

Author:Rick Scott

“I focused on jobs. I built private sector jobs all my life. That's what the race was about. Who was going to build private sector jobs? My opponent who never had one? Or me? That's why I won last night.”

Jobs Built Private Sector

Author:Rick Scott

“The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.”

Men Running Money Cry Benefits Built Fairs Dear Nonsense Percentages Railroads

Author:William Henry Vanderbilt

“Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.”

Men Mind Subjects Capable Built Mathematics Foundation Mathematical Uncertainty Void Discourse Demonstration Geometry

Book:Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century

Source: Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.”

Kind Behinds Fronts Scene Limits Built Cameras Agents My Time Longevity Lenses Delighted Behind The Scenes Lawsuit Time Limit

Author:David Lee Roth

“I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.”

Thinking Stills Modern Car Built Horse Originals Abandoned Engineering Framework Carts Carriages Mules Modern Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Some people are great, and they approach each work with honesty, and that's wonderful. But when people have built up a sort of resentment or animosity for reasons that are hard to put your finger on, they read in bad faith.”

People Hard Reason Wonderful Honesty Approach Built Fingers Resentment Animosity

Author:Paul Auster

“I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.”

Ideas Smart Jokes Built Foundation Observation

Author:George Carlin

“The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.”

World Bigs Projects Built Entertainment Scales

Author:Chris Gethard

“Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.”

Ifs Knows Hard Process Difficult Careers Team Built Filmmaker Extras Bad Movies

Author:Christophe Beck

“Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.”

Men Trying Moments Remember Built Bridges Shallow Inappropriate

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.”

Feels Littles Found Bits Novel Succeed Little Bit Built Tendencies Fragile Fossils Unbroken Archaeologists

Author:Stephen King

“I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.”

Has Beens Art Stills School Community Study Growing College High School My Friends Built Ideals Feminist

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].”

Ifs Levels Communication Built Deeper Partners Being Yourself Openness Trust And Respect

Author:Richard Gere

“Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.”

Ifs Way Wells Bigs Guy Wonder Plans Design Personality Built Intelligent Peculiar Things In Life That Guy Intelligent Design God's Plan Big Guys

Author:Stephen King

“I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill.”

Enough Wanted Streets Built Independent Boring Bridges Teenage Stamps Mills Forts So Boring Food Stamps Cedars Street Life Teenage Life Aberdeen

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.”

World Want Eye Earth Lying Justice My Own Space Built Infinite Victim Embrace Longing Believer Lions Murderer Time And Space Lambs Infinite Time

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.”

Trying Lying Dies Fall Love Is Alive Sky Building Built Everlasting Lasting Love Everlasting Love

Author:Jeff Tweedy

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