Bob Goff Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places.
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I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.
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Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
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My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.
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Don't let other people decide who you are.
