R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
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I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
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With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe.
