R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
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I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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I wrote 'Ohio,' and it was really awesome to be able to share that with my fans because a lot of them can relate to not having a parent in their life. It's really one of my favourite songs to sing live.
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Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...'I will do my best with what is here.'
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The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
