Bob Goff Quotes
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.
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Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.
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Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
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Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child a child of God becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused.
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God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.
