Bob Buford Quotes
Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I was determined not to remain poor.
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What happened was that one of the engineers must have heard the Sunkist vocal tape and for reasons best known to himself – shits and giggles, probably – cobbled together a bootleg, a Sunkist ‘Blue Monday’ take for fun. He obviously gave it to someone, who gave it to someone . . . until eventually it ended up with Sunkist, who grabbed it, put their logo on it, did an edit using some of the ‘Touched by the Hand of God’ video and issued it as an official advert. We protested and they ended up pulling the ad, but of course by that time the damage had been done and, like it or not, we’d advertised Sunkist. To add insult to injury, we never got paid for it. Not a cent. It’s still up on YouTube, check it out.
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Honestly, it's really fun to be yourself. It's really fun to be me.
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The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.
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When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
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Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.
