R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
