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Bill Buford Quotes

I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

Bill Buford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Myself Fire Feet Focused Cut Been

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Jim Fowler

Space Economics Powerful Argument

I love religion.

Jessica Simpson

Love Religion I Love

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

John Gunther

Politics American Selfishness Through

I love Joan Didion, but I love her writing. I don't think meeting her could solve my problems or make me understand the world better.

John Darnielle

Love Me Writing World Think Better

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.

Angela Rye

Good Time I Am Tired People Me

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.

Sienna Miller

People Hit Once Few Few People

I'm as famous as I want to be.

Tracey Ullman

Famous Want

Every person's every action has an effect.

Rosanne Cash

Action Person Effect Every

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

Michael Patrick King

Good Moment People Feel You Create

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

Miley Cyrus

People Think You Know Who Easier

I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engineering News,' there was an interview of Vince Gilligan when he had first started the television show 'Breaking Bad.' And in that interview, he was stating how important it was to him that he get the science right for the show.

Donna Nelson

Science Society Engineering American

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

Life Food Humor Lie Someone You