R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.
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I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.
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My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.
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I don't like driving through the rain. Your tour is only going to go as good as your bus driver, kinda like your band is only going to be as good as your drummer.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.
