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The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Around Blur Brings Building Buildings Cried Functions Got How How Much Kids Laughed Life Like Little Little Kids Lot Matter Most Much Our Public Put Ran Successful Theory Things Top Try Ways Work Worked

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I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Believe Building Just Planning Time Where You I Believe I Believe In

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Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

~Elizabeth Edwards

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At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

~Elizabeth Holmes

Topics: Age Because Began Believe Building Business Change Early Early Age Greatest Impact Making Opportunity Perhaps Relatively Tool World

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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: About Brothers Building Courtship Early Grandfather Grandparents Grew Indian Lives Our Stories Territory Together Up

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I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Across After Basically Before Believe Big Building Cannot Center Chunk Day Die End Fell Going Had Hard Hard Time Living Never Really Roof Sat Street Thought Time Top Trade Way World World Trade World Trade Center

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I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.

~Ella Henderson

Topics: Amazing Building Christmas Cold Could Hot Like Love Only Snow The Only Thing Thing Would I Love

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There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

~Ellen Gallagher

Topics: Accidents Building Doubt Finding Happenstance Interesting Know Living Many Much Need Okay Over Something Stumbling Time Willing Work You

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I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

~Ellen Page

Topics: Building Fake Fighting Movie Obvious People Really Side Slipping Someone Think Watching You I Think

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The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: About Access Administration Against Alliance Armed Building Concentrated Deal Diplomatic Drones Effort Get Great Great Deal Information Maintaining Near Obama Obama Administration Provide Share Strike Terrorists Them Then Use Vastly

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