R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
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You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.
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The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
