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.

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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 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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• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fall

• Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Technology

• I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

  

  Jason Blum
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• The Empire Never Ended

  

  Philip K. Dick

• Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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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
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