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I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

~Alma Guillermoprieto

Topics: Concrete Detail Like May Mind Practical Things Very I May Not

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More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

~Alva Myrdal

Topics: Cause Concrete Disarmament Done More Must Order Promote Terms

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The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof covered in row upon row of solar panels, embodying the renewable future that the batteries manufactured within are meant to sustain.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: America Batteries Concrete Covered Future Giant Marvel Mass Meant Modern Plant Renewable Roof Row Solar Sustain Within

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Everything is complicated about using concrete - the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.

~Annabelle Selldorf

Topics: About Achieve Clean Complicated Concrete Consistent Dedication Discipline Everything Exactly Fine How Keep Laid Make Neat Necessary Quality Timing Understanding Using Will You

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I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

~Annabelle Selldorf

Topics: About Always Architect Concrete Else Had He Knew Particular People Remember Specification Talked Young I Remember

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I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw - we talk about crumbling bridges - I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.

~Anthony Foxx

Topics: About Auto Below Bridges Concrete Crumbling Falling Literally Nashville Onto Saw Talk Tennessee Threatening Traffic

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Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.

~Antoine Fuqua

Topics: Beautiful Before Big City Concrete Dirt Dream Evil Freedom Go Good Growing Growing Up Had Horses Kid Never People Really Seen Sense Simple Skies Space Stories Up Westerns Where You

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I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.

~Antony Starr

Topics: Anger Back Coffee Concrete Cups Cut Get Had Head Job Knocked Open Over Plastic Scar Stack Stupidest Supermarket Threw Wall Way Working

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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

~Arthur Scargill

Topics: Action Calling Concrete Did Failed Giving Industrial Instead Labour Labour Party Nothing Party Support Take Trade Unions Workers

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Abstract Capable Concrete Enjoying Happiness He Himself Human Longer Money Then Utterly Who

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