R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
Quotes to Explore
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
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We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.
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I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
