Bob Goff Quotes
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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Gym traumaramas can happen to anyone. One time, I brought a packet of papers to read while jogging on the treadmill. Right when I was in the middle of my run, I dropped them and they flew everywhere! Pages went flying all over the place and got in the way of other people working out.
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
