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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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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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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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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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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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
