Bob Buford Quotes

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

Bob Buford

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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Yahya Jammeh
- Up
- Now
- Bigger
There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

Rachel Bloom
- People
- Pretty
- You
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

Naveen Jain
Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

Walter O'Brien
- People
- Ideas
- Try
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

Majora Carter
- Up
- Community
- Respect
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

Gabriel Mann
- Friend
- Boy
- Thought