Bob Goff Quotes
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Pay attention to how we move things
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.
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Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.
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Prayer can do anything that God can do.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.
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We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
