William McDonough Quotes
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.
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Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
