R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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My body back at the Playboy mansion was the most important thing in life back then because we were in the spotlight every minute. We had to look good. The girls who gained the weight, those were the girls who didn't get the work.
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If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.
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Yeah, I came in at the end of the Notorious album, played on about five tracks and then we went on a tour. Then we did another album, Big Thing, and then we started writing songs together in 1989.
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In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
