William McDonough Quotes
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I live in a rural residential area. It's a great place for a walk. I'm at my happiest when I'm listening to my iPod while walking around where my feet take me.
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It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Most people don't deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Chaplin or Lucille Ball.
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
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Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
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I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
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He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
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I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
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While we measure our own success in terms of our personal comfort and security, the universe measures our success by how much we have learned.
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In planetary terms, we're all downstream.
