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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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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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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The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.
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Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
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It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
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This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
