Bob Goff Quotes
Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
Quotes to Explore
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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God don't make no junk.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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I've never been a good patient. I'm not good with pain. It is not for me.
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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.
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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
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In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect to strengthen our activities there, perhaps even moving some of our engineering activities abroad.
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I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.
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As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
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It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness.
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What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
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If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
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It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
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Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.
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Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
