Bob Goff Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.
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The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
