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'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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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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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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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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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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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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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.
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In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.
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I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.
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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
