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.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Experiment

• I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Think
  • Past
  • Patience

• 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.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Like

• Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• 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.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• 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.

  

  James Lovegrove
  • Good
  • School
  • Boy

• 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!

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • City

• I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Fighting

• I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Relationship
  • Dog

• I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Girl

• What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Work
  • Winning

• Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Time
  • Live
  • Feeling

• The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

  

  James Hillman
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Work
  • She
  • Friends

• My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • City
  • Style
  • Myself

• Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

  

  Franjo Tudjman

• Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

  

  Bob Goff
  • People
  • White House
  • Invitation