"I can't imagine something being beautiful at this point in history if it's destroying the planet or causing children to get sick. How can anything be beautiful if it's not ecologically intelligent at this point?"

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Source : "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.

William McDonough

#Beautiful Quotes #Children Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.”
“I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.”
“I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.”
“We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself and his company-a determination to undertake a personal program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do it for you.”
“Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.”
“The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.500, Bantam
“The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)”
“I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.”

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