R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
Quotes to Explore
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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The Uighurs are a Turkic people more closely related to Uzbeks and Kazakhs than to Chinese.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.
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I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years.
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I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?
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There's a lot of guys who are drafted and end up not playing in the NBA. They get their money for their first whatever years and end up going overseas or something like that.
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All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.
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The summer before my senior year of college, I would surf every single morning, and I got better and loved it. For me, it is nice to get away from the soccer field and have these other things to clear your mind. You don't have to be good at it; you just do it and enjoy it. It is nice to have that balance, and I need that balance in my life.
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My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.
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With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that's what I love to do, to be competitive.
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I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.
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I think naturally you want to judge things.
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I have never really believed that acting is very difficult. I think some people have a skill and are able to act, and if you have that natural gift, it's not difficult.
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When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
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I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.
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I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction
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'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects in what Sonic Youth has done through the years - being able to get very abstract and very concrete within the same song.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
