R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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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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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
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Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
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I feel like anyone can be a kid forever as long as you have that mindset and attitude towards the world.
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
