William McDonough Quotes

I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

William McDonough

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• I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Never

• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  

  Nas
  • Hip Hop
  • Noise
  • Spotlight

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Single
  • Sex
  • Kiss

• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Problems
  • Acquaint

• I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Thing

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• Art is more engaging that propaganda.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Art
  • More
  • Propaganda

• Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Friend

• I've always had a little pooch. I just always have - that's just my body type. No matter how skinny I've been, it's always there. And now that I've had kids, I sort of don't mind as much because, you know what? What my stomach and my body went through is truly a miracle.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Miracle

• There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

  

  Bernard Rudofsky
  • Learn
  • Architecture
  • Expert

• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Wall
  • Break
  • Exciting

• I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mind
  • Architecture
  • Breathe