William McDonough Quotes

I suggest we take our heads out of the tar sands and look up to see the sun. We don't own it, but it provides us all with great, endless value. So, too, the wind. These free, renewable sources of 'energy currency' are perfect partners to what we own together.

William McDonough

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GreatTogetherValueSunWindFree

If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

Jeremy Jackson

CommunityBusyBetterYouWillTry

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.

Max von Sydow

WarStartMadnessViolenceBecome

This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.

Robert Shea

BridgeSmallRiseSeriousTopClub

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

Michael Cacoyannis

LifeDeathBossLookAliveTrouble

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Stephen Ambrose

EvilHolocaustCrimeCommittedMost

I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas 'Milk and Honey' was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.

Rupi Kaur

MirrorReflectionYourselfWorldUp

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

Molly Quinn

CharacterEndSomeoneYouBadDark

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Lukas Haas

TimeSmallSmall TownWayMonth

My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.

Josh Pais

FamilyFatherBornRightHidingGet

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

LifeMoving OnYouDownTreasure

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'

Donald Dunn

SchoolMeDuckFriendsTeachersFew

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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