Bob Goff Quotes
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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Most people think good enough is good enough.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
