Bob Goff Quotes
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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I do not believe in hypocrisy.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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These diseases, both alcoholism and addiction, much like bipolar or depression and different illnesses, are still not seen as real diseases. People shy away from seeking help because it's viewed as being somewhat morally off the path, that they've lost their way.
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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
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Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.
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No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
