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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.
I told college I was gonna take a semester off, but I knew I was never going back. I felt like the walls were closing in on me.
What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.
If everyone breaks down their walls and stops putting themselves on holier-than-thou pedestals, we can all learn from each other.
Traditional alpinism is slowly disappearing. It is becoming sport, indoors on small walls with holds where you cannot really fall.
As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.
I grew up having all the Dolce & Gabbana campaigns on the walls of my teenage bedroom, and I was dreaming of one day being a model.
Every movement of mine was under the control of the Vietnamese government, a communist country. I was just a prisoner without walls.
For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
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.
I circumnavigated the globe while I was sitting in a prison. It was wonderful because I kept defeating those walls they put around me.
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.
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive - maybe that's the reason for all the wings in 'Pure.'
As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.
We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.
Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.
You don't realize how much a dog's presence defines the contours of your home until, in its absence, the walls seem to relocate themselves.
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.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
At a time when too many people want to separate us by building walls, we here in Michigan are going to get back to building bridges together.
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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.
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.
Trump starts out by saying, 'We need to build walls; we need to do this.' He's very bombastic in what he's saying and his approach to the world.
We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.
If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.
We can understand each other with music without words - and that's so important in these times when walls are built. In music, there are no walls.
We need walls around our schools, we need to protect our schools. Ten-foot rule. You can't get within ten feet unless you're supposed to be there.
Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint.
American Odyssey' will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It's theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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.
I grew up in a little town in Arkansas called Clarksville and it was a weird existence, you know? I grew up white trash; we had holes in our walls.
I've had X-rays on both eyes, the bone has grown back and I have plates over each one, so I'm like a Terminator now and ready to walk through walls.