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.
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
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
Malcolm Mclaren
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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
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
Tea Obreht
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson
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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
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
Raf Simons
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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
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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
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
Kate Winslet
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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
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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
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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
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos
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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
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I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
Canelo Alvarez
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
Laura Chinchilla
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[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