R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.
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Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
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Children will draw pictures with everything in them...houses and trees and people and animals...and the sun AND the moon. Grown-up says, "That's a nice picture, Honey, but you put the moon and the sun in the sky at the same time and that isn't right." But the child is right! The sun and moon are in the sky at the same time.
