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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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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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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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 GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
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Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
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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.
