R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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If I knew that 3D was going to be such a big deal, I would have gotten that boob job 10 years ago.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
