Bob Goff Quotes
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.
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There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.
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If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
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I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
