R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.
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It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
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I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
