R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
Quotes to Explore
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
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The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
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And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.
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There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
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A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.
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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
