Bob Goff Quotes
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.
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No-one contests the need to address the high cost of and the corresponding difficulty of having access to cross-border clearing and settlement in the EU. We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation. It is clear, though, that the present system is untenable. Changes are going to have to be made. We believe the industry recognizes this as well and we would encourage them to be a part of the solution and not the problem." ()
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No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
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You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.
