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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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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I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
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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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If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those characters are criticized for being weak, for being subject to a man, but I think that that's a really bold and natural thing that we all want.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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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.
