I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump. Because he’s very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants; he asks me what he can get from us.
I drifted into acting, and I’ve drifted into my career, and I’ve never been guided by anything particularly concrete.
I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and I saw – we talk about crumbling bridges – I saw one, concrete literally falling onto the underpass below, threatening auto traffic.
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
It’s been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.
The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo – outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
The problem with Raven is that she’s so smart, so sometimes it’s hard for her to be hopeful or idealistic, because she’s so realistic. So even if she’s working on a solution, she’s not proud of it until it’s concrete.
Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.
Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it’s not just this overview and look back effect. There’s also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.
Westerns are simple stories where there’s good and there’s evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you’ve never really seen that before. It’s a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don’t pan out.
CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation – and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Having concrete, strong thoughts is very important.
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job – construction, concrete. All we know is work. It’s a physical culture.
I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry – still.
I’ve never been more terrified than when I learned how to paramotor. They attached this machine to my back, as if I was a stuntman in a James Bond movie, and I had to fly over all these trees and patches of concrete in Cirencester.
The Umbrella Movement was a legacy, not a victory, because there weren’t any concrete policies or systematic reforms after it.
It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and his family have a direct, concrete interest.
I liked my father’s work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it’s at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei’s concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
The Qur’an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete – there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.
Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: ‘Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam’; ‘End Segregation Now’; ‘Support Women’s Right to Choose.’
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
We’re planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We’re building public transportation and affordable housing.
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
In a clown, we see what we do that makes us laugh and cry. I kept the white face, the tradition of the Pierrot. My clown became a romantic and stylized figure. I wanted to be an abstract and concrete figure, a symbol of humanity.
I’m from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that’s for sure.
A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
When I was first started, when I was eighteen, I wrestled for a company that had a very hardcore fanbase and demanded a lot from its wrestlers. So, every single match, I would do every move possible. I would land on the concrete floor; I would land really high on my head just to try to impress the fans.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it’s a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
In those rare cases in which you have a dull knife and cooking to do, but no ceramic in sight, the top edge of a rolled-down car window will work just as well. Even a smooth stone or slab of concrete outside can work in a pinch.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
There’s a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it’s overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
