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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
- Hans Blix
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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Dominique Pire
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We need to build relationships, not walls.
- John B. Goodenough
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Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.
- John Seabrook
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In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.
- James G. Stavridis
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I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.
- Channing Tatum
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I like to build bridges... not walls.
- Óscar Arias
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We are a nation that does not build walls. We do not believe in building walls. And that defines who we are. We are South Africans, and we do not subscribe to the building of walls.
- Cyril Ramaphosa
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I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.
- Velveteen Dream
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I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
- Charles Barkley
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An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates.
- Vitruvius
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The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
- Vitruvius
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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
- Wislawa Szymborska
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Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.
- Clementa C. Pinckney
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
- Richard Lovelace
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
- Jackie Robinson
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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
- Bernard DeVoto
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I don't hang my championship trophies on the walls, because they don't pay the bills.
- Brock Lesnar
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As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.
- James Wolcott
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
- Hans Haacke
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
- Hans Haacke
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I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup.
- Derek Trucks
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The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.
- Jane Clayson
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If anyone interferes into the private life of two people, I will defend the right of those two people between their four walls. That is no problem.
- Jair Bolsonaro
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Donald Trump is trying to build a wall. I'm trying to burn walls down and build more bridges.
- Janelle Monae
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I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
- Sarah Burton
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The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.
- Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
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It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
- John Lewis
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
- Carlton Fisk
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I don't like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
- Sam Hunt
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It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated.
- Steve-O
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I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.
- Rashid Johnson
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A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
- Hamdi Ulukaya
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Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.
- Isabella Bird
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In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.
- James G. Stavridis
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Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
- Cy Twombly
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My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
- Jamie Wyeth
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My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.
- Morten Harket
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
- Samira Wiley
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Nothing is hanging on my walls.
- Alice Ripley
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There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.
- Douglas Tompkins
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This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important.
- Sebastian Lelio
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Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.
- Annie Jacobsen
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Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.
- Stephen J. Dubner
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I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.
- Santigold
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Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.
- Susan Wiggs
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I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'
- John Grisham
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The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
- Henry Mayhew
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People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
- Robert Mueller
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
- Karl Philipp Moritz
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By making all my materials freely available through 'Giving 2.0' ProjectU, I am on a mission to extend philanthropy education to colleges globally and far beyond campus walls.
- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
- Harry Belafonte
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
- Ian Hart
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
- Pat Brown
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God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!
- Robert Jeffress
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
- Hamish Bowles
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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
- John Gardner
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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
- Evan Osnos
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Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
- Vinessa Shaw
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
- Jaclyn Smith
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I don't have many walls that I put up.
- Austin Butler
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Right outside of Kansas City is Leavenworth, and there are, like, five prisons there. It was kind of the tapestry of my childhood. I was always fascinated. I wanted to know what was behind those walls.
- Eric Stonestreet
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Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
- Rudolf Otto
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I do think that one of the best effects the Internet has had on music is that it's allowed these false walls between different music communities to vaporize. We can see that this is a big, complex, interconnected web.
- David Longstreth
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I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.
- John McEnroe
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
- Linda McCartney
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
- Caleb Cushing
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I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.
- John Ritter
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
- Bill Drayton
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
- Candice Olson
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
- Paul McCartney
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You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
- Anthony Doerr
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I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.
- Mila Kunis
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I always loved the signs on the outfield walls, and I'll never forget the one in Philadelphia. It said, 'The Phillies use Lifebuoy soap,' and underneath was scrawled, 'And they still stink.'
- Joe Garagiola
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My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.
- Jessy Schram
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When you're even on a regular movie set, you still have to suspend your disbelief. You're working there with only 3 walls of a room, and you're in costume, and you have a camera 6 inches from you and have a crew of 75 watching you. So even there, you have to crank up your imagination.
- Caterina Scorsone
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When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.
- Kellie Pickler
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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
- Charles Olson
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He has painted many roses for me. My walls are covered with Howard originals.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern
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We are very proud of the diverse talents within the Franklin Mint's own walls.
- Lynda Resnick
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I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.
- Dr. Dre
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
- Norman Mailer
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We got to bust through some walls to make changes.
- Michelle Lujan Grisham
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You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- Morris West
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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
- Morris West
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
- Vicente Fox
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I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day.
- Casper Van Dien
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
- Horatio Alger
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
- Irvine Welsh
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What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
- John Wycliffe
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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
- Eugene O'Neill
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I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.
- Danielle Steel
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By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
- Chris Noth
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The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.
- John Hersey
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
- Randy Pausch
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Working on 'The Larry Sanders Show,' everything was there on the paper and in the room and within the four walls when all of us were together. It was just all there.
- Penny Johnson Jerald
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My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.
- Scott Adkins
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Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.
- Alan Huffman
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