Bob Goff Quotes
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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I drive girls crazy because I might call them 20 times in one day and then the next day not once.
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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I don't want to miss out on the good stuff. As long as the character is good and the show is good, the medium does not matter to me. There are a few makers that I have an enormous trust in and that I know will do an amazing job.
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I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.
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I play a lot of video games, and I go to the gym.
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Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.
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I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
