Bob Goff Quotes
When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
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I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
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Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
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It's one thing to give up some plays and get beat when you're in position or if you execute properly and you're just not quite able to make the play. It's another when you put yourself out of position and allow someone to convert on you or make a big play just because of your own doings.
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Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.
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When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
