R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Die

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Hand
  • Best
  • Look

• There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Up
  • Education
  • Human

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• I'm a real girly-girl.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Girly

• Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • First
  • Refuge

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • More

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Good
  • Literature

• If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Soul
  • Party
  • Cool

• When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Connection

• It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

  

  Ashley Judd
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Quality

• We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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