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• My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.

  Julian Huxley

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• I collect clothes they keep building and building. I buy them instead of having them washed.

  Juliette Lewis

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• At any one time, 15 per cent of the buildings of Hong Kong are being either demolished or rebuilt, renovated or restructured.

  Martin Booth

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• I don’t think about an industry or building things, but somebody says you’re lucky if you find something you like to do, which is true, and then it’s a miracle if you get paid to do it.

  James Patterson

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• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else’s philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  Ben Parr

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• As a society, we haven’t spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

  Jennifer Pahlka

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• My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

  Edmund Hillary

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• I’m really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

  Robert Herjavec

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• Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn’t achieved without it.

  Margaret Heffernan

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• It’s important for people who criticise architects – whether what they build is or isn’t to your taste – to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

  Thomas Heatherwick

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• One great building does not make a great city.

  Thomas Heatherwick

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• Play is under attack in our nation’s schools – and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

  Darell Hammond

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• Just as playgrounds didn’t even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

  Darell Hammond

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• The Eisenhower Building – the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody’s looking down at their Blackberry. It’s a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it’s this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It’s a fascinating contrast.

  Tony Hale

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• If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that – they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.

  Zaha Hadid

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• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there’s no reason for it to be. I don’t want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  Zaha Hadid

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• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  Zaha Hadid

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• But all over Ohio – all over America – men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped ‘Made in America.’

  Ted Strickland

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• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a ‘big tent’ party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  Olympia Snowe

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• Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.

  Howard Schultz

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