R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.R. Buckminster Fuller
Quotes to Explore
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler -
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant -
If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
Manny Montana -
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Tea Obreht -
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson -
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
Barton Gellman -
I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons -
The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps -
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg -
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
Karen Allen -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn -
You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
Padma Lakshmi -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith -
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
Jack Markell -
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten -
I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
Kate Micucci
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
Naeem Khan -
...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
Laini Taylor -
About the 'movers and the shakers' of the government These people are the first line of defense when it comes to the terrorist threat, but the word 'shit' makes them cry. 'Why didn't he say poopie?! Why didn't he say poopie?!'
Lewis Black -
There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.
Margo Jefferson -
I'm not on chef level, but I'd make a good line cook. That's not too shabby.
Jon Favreau -
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. Buckminster Fuller