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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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 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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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.
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If Southern Baptist churches sent just 1 percent of their members to reach the nations and peoples of the world, instead of five thousand there would be 160,000 missionaries (according to our reported membership of sixteen million in 2009). The support should not be a problem—not financially, logistically, or in human resources. Could not 99 percent of the church adequately support the 1 percent sent to the nations to fulfill the mission of God?
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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If your body could speak, what would it say?
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God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.
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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.
