William McDonough Quotes
Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.
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Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.
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When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
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Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.
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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
