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.
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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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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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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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Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
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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.
