#construct

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

#deconstruct #extent #i #i can #i think

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #constructed #event #experience #failed

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bills #boost #china #common #common sense

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#back #deconstruct #discuss #everything #fights

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. ↗

— Breaux Greer

#between #construction #doing #ever #first

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#allies #canada #degree #events #influence

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25. ↗

— Ian Hart

#back #billions #career #competing #construct

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#break #constructs #coverage #distorted #extensive