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“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”
Source : R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
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“The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. They may have guns and pepper spray and helicopters and F16s and the whole U.S. military on their side, but when it comes down to it, we still have the numbers.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It’s the most important achievement.”
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“There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.”
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“How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.”
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“I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.”
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“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.”
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“The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.”
Source : FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Aug 23, 2010 
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“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”
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“It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
