Bob Buford Quotes

God’s desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.

Bob Buford

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• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Go
  • Once

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Love
  • Way
  • Weird

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Meant To Be

• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Existence

• Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Bad
  • Door
  • Calm

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Red

• Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • More
  • Become
  • Edge

• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Faith
  • Dry

• The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that's scary, people will come.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • I Think
  • Record
  • Recognize

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• Lice, rats, barbed wire, fleas, shells, bombs, underground caves, corpses, blood, liquor, mice, cats, gas, artillery, filth, bullets, mortars, fire, steel: that is what war is! It is all the work of the Devil!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Work
  • War
  • Fire

• But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

  

  Peter Davison
  • Life
  • Poetry

• God’s desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.

  

  Bob Buford
  • Work
  • Serve
  • God's Desire