Bob Buford Quotes
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.
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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.
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I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My family doesn't want to be surrounded by cameras. We want to live like any other family.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?
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Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.
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Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
