R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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While growing u,p I was the fattest girl in the class, and my name was Twinkle, so if I didn't learn to laugh at myself, then I was going nowhere.
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
