Built Quotes
2368 quotes by 1866 authors
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
— Hamdi Ulukaya
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Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed…
— Ami Bera
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I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit…
— Rick Bayless
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
— Bill Gates
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As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that…
— Stephen Hawking
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which…
— Alice Morse Earle
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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were…
— Alice Morse Earle
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My house is actually two houses that were deconstructed. They were Connecticut Valley houses built in 1771 and 1781. I took them down piece by…
— Daryl Hall
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank.…
— Eddi Reader
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France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend…
— Tyler Cowen
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Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative,…
— Martin Jacques
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The synagogues of late antiquity and the early medieval period were built around imagery: imagery of remembering the Temple, but also of the celestial zodiac,…
— Simon Schama
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends…
— Pastor Maldonado
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In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned.…
— Rose George
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Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction…
— Michael Specter
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Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant…
— Seth Shostak
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As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built…
— Joe Torre
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I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
— Bill Rancic
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The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And…
— Chris Abani
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