Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system. – Tony Tan
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter. – Warren Buffett
The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have. – Sonny Landham
What I’m trying to do now in my life – not just with the building, but with everything – is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won’t just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. – Sylvester Stallone
Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. – Steve Jurvetson
Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships. – Stana Katic
The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment. – Sukarno
Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. – Yukiya Amano
American Ballet Theatre’s rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina’s toes. – Sascha Radetsky
It’s hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid. – Thomas Mars
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe not every song, but writers from Benny Goodman to Lieber & Stoller to Neil Diamond all kept offices there. – Shawn Amos
I don’t think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations. – Viktor Orban
I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties. – Yelena Baturina
God is building an army all over the place, in Hollywood as well. So it feels good to be a part of it. – Trai Byers
I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building. – Sam Simon
In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes. – Susanne Bier
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). – Virginia Postrel
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. – Sebastian Coe
While they’re building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope. – Sam Wood
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they’re short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. – Sergio Aragones
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. – Vitruvius
Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building? – Steve Hanke
So I rang up a local building firm, I said ‘I want a skip outside my house.’ He said ‘I’m not stopping you.’ – Tim Vine
When done right – or wrong, depending on how you look at it – deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there’s no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties. – Thomas Frank
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids. – Steve Carell
Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland. – Walter Ulbricht
I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game – people generally want ‘more of the same thing, except better and different.’ – Yishan Wong
I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That’s what I intend to do. – Terry Semel