R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

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• If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.

  

  Vince Carter
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• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
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• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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• I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
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• When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
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• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
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• I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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• It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

  

  Lennox Lewis
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• The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

  

  Barack Obama
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• However we select from nature a complex of phenomena using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when general relativity, too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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