Bob Buford Quotes
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I believe in my music.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
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They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.
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When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
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The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
