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#1. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

Ruzwana Bashir

#2. I believe we've ... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

John Abizaid

#3. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Mark Zuckerberg

#4. Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.

Rick Pitino

#5. It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and it said 2000. I was like, "Huh, I wonder if she even knows what Y2K is?" But I guess I've just been able to build a foundation.

Kelly Clark

#6. In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.

Mick Dodson

#7. I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

Nick Woodman

#8. The grief that was so strong it shook like continental shifts, dividing what was now from what was, forcing me to acknowledge that I was going to have to build a life on foreign soil.

Jessica Gadziala

#9. The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Mary Douglas

#10. The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit is all that is needed for a monster movie.

Stephen Hunter

#11. If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.

Evan Glodell

#12. For people choosing to use a network marketing system to build a business in the B quadrant, the price of entry is a lot lower, the risks are lower, and the education and support are there to guide you through this personal development process.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.

Ursula Vernon

#14. Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Dan Quayle

#15. Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.

Frans De Waal

#16. If every door you knock on doesn't open, it's time to build your own.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. The ultimate goal of the architect ... is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture ... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Alvar Aalto

#18. At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.

Lee Jampolsky

#19. I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.

Douglas Coupland

#20. Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth.

Robert Kiyosaki

#21. It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team.

Colin Kaepernick

#22. There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

Sri Aurobindo

#23. The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

Justin Rosenstein

#24. Followers need to see how things will get better and what that future might look like. Leaders need to build that foundation of stability, and hope sits on top of that.

Tom Rath

#25. The novelist destroys the house of his life and uses its stones to build the house of his novel.

Milan Kundera

#26. What I am saying,' [Hiram Bell] said, 'is that we once had much, and we made what we could of it, but now it is passed. Do you mourn the passing of civilization? I do not. We do not live for civilization. We live to build our souls up to be good enough for God. More beer?

R.E. Klein

#27. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for us to build those emplacements under the guise of something totally different and they would have never been discovered. The amazing thing was that they weren't discovered earlier. It was a question of carelessness, lack of foresight.

Fidel Castro

#28. The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Lydia Sigourney

#29. We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Miguel De Icaza

#30. Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits.

Michael Crapo

#31. The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#32. 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.

Will Smith

#33. If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.

Tommy Smith

#34. Then the 1956 Peace Prize went to Eisenhower and Khrushchev for agreeing not to build the hydrogen bomb. That agreement was now also called the Szilard Treaty. Today the H-bomb was a threshold no one dared cross without exciting hostile moves by all other powers.

Gregory Benford

#35. The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase.

Holly D. Reid

#36. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37. There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

Irwin Redlener

#38. To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Anwar Sadat

#39. Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.

Seth Godin

#40. Rather than thinking to build, build to think.

Tim Brown

#41. One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Mitch Kapor

#42. The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network.

Joe Green

#43. There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

John C. Maxwell

#44. The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.

Larry Fitzgerald

#45. Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

David Brooks

#46. All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

#47. Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on.

Louis Armstrong

#48. We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.

Debbie Stabenow

#49. In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

Satya Nadella

#50. We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

William Arthur Ward

#51. My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from.

Rob Hill Sr.

#52. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

Tommy Hilfiger

#53. LOVE is ... wanting to experience things together, learning from your differences, to build future together.

Guillaume Musso

#54. Our aim in delegating is not simply to make our own lives better and free up our time. It is also to build up the other person.

Matt Perman

#55. Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring ... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Steven Wright

#56. We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

Patsy Mink

#57. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, that there was no such thing as an empty canvas.

Janet Fitch

#58. As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up ... so we can focus ... so we can be in concert with one another.

Phil Jackson

#59. I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#60. In youth, you want someone to build a life with. After fifty, you just want someone who can handle salt.

Rodney Ross

#61. A sad truth about fortunes - they take decades to build and no time at all to spend.

Pamela Sherwood

#62. There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.

Lance Armstrong

#63. These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.

David Levithan

#64. Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Thomas Perez

#65. What ever you do, try to do it perfectly because the world is watching you; every step and every move you make. It's ready to crush you down or to build you up. That's the world for you.

Euginia Herlihy

#66. Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

#68. I'm proposing ... that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.

John Wilbanks

#69. First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

Robert Kiyosaki

#70. You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

Ted Baillieu

#71. I'm learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#72. The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.

Arthur Guiterman

#73. In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

Olivia Wilde

#74. Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

LL Cool J

#75. I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

David Chipperfield

#76. The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

Evgeny Morozov

#77. The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.

Vivek Wadhwa

#78. For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars. Now

Adriana Trigiani

#79. This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

Ron Haviv

#80. Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

Sergey Lavrov

#81. These are the decisions that I and many other tribal judges try to make. Solid decisions with no scattershot opinions attached. Everything we do, no matter how trivial, must be crafted keenly. We are trying to build a solid base here for our sovereignty.

Louise Erdrich

#82. Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,
and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.

Jay Woodman

#83. You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something,

Louis C.K.

#84. One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist.

Bronislaw Huberman

#85. Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

Seth Lloyd

#86. If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

E.L. Doctorow

#87. Although we cannot change the past, we can stake our claim on it and make it ours. We can know for ourselves where we have been and use that wisdom to build our future.

Ashley Warner

#88. That's why breakups take two or three times- to build up immunity.

Jerry Seinfeld

#89. I want to know what changed in fully modern humans, compared with Neanderthals, that made a difference. What made it possible for us to build up these enormous societies, and spread around the globe, and develop the technology that I think no one can doubt is unique to humans.

Svante Paabo

#90. The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

John Prescott

#91. Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin

#92. No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

Janet Evanovich

#93. I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

William Kamkwamba

#94. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.

John Patrick Hickey

#95. What's the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Tony Hsieh

#96. It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Will Rogers

#97. Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.

David Rockefeller

#98. Your happiness cannot depend on anyone. Your happiness is yours to build and enjoy. No one, absolutely no one, is indispensable in this life. Do not base your happiness on someone, base it on yourself and it will last much longer

Ariana Godoy

#99. It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.

Flora Thompson

#100. I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.

Laurel Nakadate