R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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I have never met a document I don't like.
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In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.
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Life often feels like a great pile of obligations, frustrations, and disappointments. But the Lord is there, always the same, His arms still outstretched. When we feel overwhelmed, we have to remember the peace He has spoken to us on previous occasions. His peace brings comfort and strength; the world cannot give that to us.
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I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
