Bob Goff Quotes
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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I love working with women.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
