Bob Goff Quotes
Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
Quotes to Explore
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
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Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
