Bob Goff Quotes
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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'Well,' said Dr Jochum, 'you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.'
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There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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I've got a full life.
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
