Bob Goff Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
Umera Ahmad -
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
Walter Cronkite -
Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
Campbell Scott -
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
S. Jay Olshansky -
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith -
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole -
My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
Yair Lapid -
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo -
I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
Katey Sagal -
I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
Sam Altman -
I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Aaron Sorkin
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
Ian Mckellen -
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Manish Dayal -
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
Rachel Kushner -
I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
M. J. Rose -
Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
Hamza Yusuf -
Closed.
Yogi Berra
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Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.
Annie Besant -
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.
Courtney Love -
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
Ofra Strauss -
In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
Yoenis Cespedes -
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
Bob Goff