Bob Goff Quotes
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
Quotes to Explore
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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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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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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Everyone needs a reset button so you can start your day without anxiety. For some people, it's running; for some, it's going to the gym. For me, it's meditation.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is. ...what we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.
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On Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
