Bob Goff Quotes

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Bob Goff

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

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• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

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• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

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• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

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• I really don't believe in magic.

  

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• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

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• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

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• Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

  

  Vera Wang
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• My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

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• Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.

  

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• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  

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• The music industry is very small.

  

  Rita Ora
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• I love cereals. We must have 10 to 15 boxes. But if I'm being honest, I have Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms hidden behind the healthier ones.

  

  Aerin Lauder

• I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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• I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
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• You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

  

  David Fincher

• It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Work
  • God
  • Broken Things