R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
Fede Alvarez -
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale -
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable -
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
Omar Ahmad -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
Kate Smith -
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca -
You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
Garret Dillahunt -
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
Illeana Douglas
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Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah -
I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
Katee Sackhoff -
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr -
I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
Frances McDormand
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If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.
Patty Jenkins -
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.
Matthew McConaughey -
Most women’s ideal is to not be sexual until nine conditions are met: physical attraction; respect; emotional compatibility; intelligence; singleness; success (or potential ); being asked out; being paid for; and the man risking rejection by initiating the first kiss…. Men want sex as long as only one condition is met-physical attraction.
Warren Farrell -
The unique innovation of the phonetic alphabet released the Greeks from the universal acoustic spill of tribal societies. (p. 70)
Marshall McLuhan -
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
Carl von Clausewitz -
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller