A Quote by Spike Lee
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
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That happens to everybody who rises up in stature: They build you up and then they start trying to tear you down.
In each moment, you have a choice where you can build yourself up or tear yourself down, and choosing to build yourself up is always within your power.
Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.
I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.
They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
I'm very conscious and weary of the hype economy and the way people build things up just to tear them down.
I think Bellator gets it, they want to build a character around each and every guy on the roster. They want to build up the names and let people see the real sides of them and they can build that up.
Hillary Clinton is going to build up opportunity. Donald Trump is going to tear it down if he becomes president.
A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
We all acknowledge there are some things that need to be torn down and removed, but it seems to me that a leader who removes something must be able to recognize the necessity of replacing it with something that is effective and sustainable - so you don't just tear down, you have to build up.
If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to build toward something and then pay it off.
I tend to look at Trump as a real-estate mogul. You look at a building and say, 'I'm just going to tear that down and build up something new.' He's not exactly Mr. Preservationist.
In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em up there on it, and then we can't wait for the day they fall off of it.
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