Bill Buford Quotes

I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Work
  • motivation
  • Work Hard

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Me
  • Eye

• Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • People
  • Book
  • King

• In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Life
  • War
  • Die

• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Adventure
  • Down
  • Turn

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Salaries

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

  

  Phillip Noyce
  • Value
  • Candy

• Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Life
  • Man
  • Way

• Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I ended up wanting to be a cook and hold my own in a restaurant.

  

  Bill Buford
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