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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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 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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My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.
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For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!
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The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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I started out in clubs, and I've always liked clubs. I like theaters because people are there for the show.
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They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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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.
