R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Where there is love there is life.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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And so a greater share of the night, Laura shed tears into her soft white pillow. Some of them were for old Oscar Lutz.... Some of them were for the general sad fact that hours fly and flowers die. But most of them were shed because of her own sudden and definite realization that even though there come new days and new ways, – love stays.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
