William McDonough Quotes
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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We need to understand the difference between freedom of religion - which is absolutely guaranteed and I would fervently defend. Sharia law is politics; it's not religion. If you say that a woman is voluntarily going to be of lesser value than a man, which is in sharia law, can we allow that?
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I don't need much coaxing.
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Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live out his life surrounded by friends and children and fertile fields of his own designing. I tihnk he wanted to die believing he had been in one the creation of a good sweet place. Those old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a far away place where decent people could escape the wreckage of the old world and start over. Come to me, the dream whispers, and you can have one more chance.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
