R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Scientists are an agnostic lot, of course-well, most educated people are, aren’t they?
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In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.
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No matter where I go, I want to carry my family.
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I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
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There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
