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"I just think there's more paparazzi, there's more cable TV, there's millions of networks now, there's more paparazzi. People liked gossip then, and they like gossip now."
"TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties."
"I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round."
"Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time."
"I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith."
"If people think I'm a dumb blonde, because of the way I look, then they're dumber than they think I am. If people think I'm not very deep because of my wigs and outfits, then they're not very deep."
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
"So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts."
"Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big."
"I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."
"Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond."
"A lot of people think if you just had more process and more compliance -- checks and doublechecks and so forth -- you could create a better result in the world. Well, Berkshire has had practically no process. We had hardly any internal auditing until they forced it on us. We just try to operate in a seamless web of deserved trust and be careful whom we trust."
"If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago."
"If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against."
"I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that."
"I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case."
"I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection."
"What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that maybe he or she did not have."
"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."
