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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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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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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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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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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Heavy-handed regulations hurt the very consumers they're supposed to help.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
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Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.
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Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
