R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.
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There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
