R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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We care about margins.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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“Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
