R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
Quotes to Explore
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.
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Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
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Friendship is the start for what you call love.
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Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
