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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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.
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I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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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.
