Bob Goff Quotes
The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
Quotes to Explore
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.
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I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.
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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
