William McDonough Quotes
We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.
Quotes to Explore
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I've never had a very great public life.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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I got a record with Frank Ocean.
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The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time.
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We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.
