R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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I think that music has an endless life.
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In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
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I need to be loved. I need to be nurtured. I also need peace and stability in my relationships. I can't be in volatile relationships.
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Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.
