Bob Buford Quotes
I’m an entrepreneur, and I want to be remembered as the seed that was planted in good soil and multiplied a hundredfold.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
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That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.
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I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
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Before me, everything was black or navy blue or gray or brown or beige, things like that, for daytime. I began using shocking pink and ice blue and all kinds of bright colors. And I dyed furs.
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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
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Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.
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Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
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I’m an entrepreneur, and I want to be remembered as the seed that was planted in good soil and multiplied a hundredfold.
