William McDonough Quotes
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.
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Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.
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The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
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The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
