R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • You
  • Mean

• You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Home
  • Think
  • You

• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • California
  • Alien
  • Immigrants

• When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Peace

• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Once
  • Magnet

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Never
  • Stage
  • Week

• We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Adventure

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Book
  • Read
  • Necessary

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Sacrifice
  • Wealth
  • Possible

• If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Know

• It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Important
  • City
  • Special

• Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Rest

• Taiwan is an independent sovereign country.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • Country
  • Independent

• It's never pleasant to have your integrity questioned, of course, no matter who you are. But when it's questioned by someone who doesn't even know you, someone who doesn't even have the facts straight, yet whose name carries the authority of science - well, that's not exactly guaranteed to make your day.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Science
  • Integrity

• Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Problem
  • Independent
  • Weakness

• I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Girl
  • Single
  • Cool

• A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Independent
  • Integrity
  • Patterns