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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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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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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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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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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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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Pain is never permanent.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
