William McDonough Quotes
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.
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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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I wake up every morning thinking I need to be edgier.
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
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The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
