R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.
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I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much anything that's a strumming, string type thing.
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It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
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I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
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People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
