Bob Goff Quotes
I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I could live naked... I love it.
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I want to love life.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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People love gentle larceny.
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My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.
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It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.
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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
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For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
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We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.
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A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.
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If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.
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What we have is a fundamental violation of the rights of shareholders and a violation of the duty of mutual funds to protect the interests of long-term shareholders.
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I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.
