R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I want to point out that I never been a member of Swedish Democrats. That is a factual error, whereas mine was an error more serious than that.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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All businesses tend to pass costs onto customers.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
