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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Home, Game, Baseball

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
Peter King

Leadership, Same, Away

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Andrew Vachss

Ball, Appearance, Mechanical

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
Bill Hybels

Love, Power, Reality

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.
Seth Godin

Time, Future, Game

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
Thomas Keller

Same, Position, Restaurant

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.
Donald Judd

Work, Mind, Together

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
Donald Judd

Done, Whole, Attention

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.
Steve Guttenberg

Life, Time, Movies

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb

Great, History, Science

In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
Bruce Nauman

Time, Beautiful, Real

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
Sanford I. Weill

Life, American, President

I've been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what we've done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.
Sanford I. Weill

Good, Done, Made

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
Robert M. Gates

Early, Tried, Force

Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
Owen Hart

Hell, Big, Whatever

I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
Barbara Mikulski

America, Social, Families

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
John Otto

Songs, Pop, Climax

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
Kit Bond

Family, End, Small

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
Franz Grillparzer

Trust, Home, Two

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
Jonathan Lethem

Good, Few, Luck

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.
David Gest

Women, Men, Medical

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
Camilla Belle

Emotional, End, Nothing

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
Adam Jones

Money, Same, Wanted

I liked working in a series, going to work every day and not having to leave town for long locations. I was producing them and building an audience.
Robert Wagner

Work, Long, Working

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

Time, History, Plan

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
Gayle King

Good, Book, She

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.
Marcus V. Pollio

Between, Whole, Result

We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.
Anna Lindh

Peace, Fighting, Terrorism

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
Greg Ginn

Music, Business, Experience

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
Cecilia Bartoli

Work, Different, Joy

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