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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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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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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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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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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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.
