Bob Goff Quotes
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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There is nothing to do but keep on.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.
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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
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If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.
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I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail out of a ping-pong ball.
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
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Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore.
