Bob Goff Quotes
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all the cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.
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I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.
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I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.
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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
