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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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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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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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
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Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
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One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
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So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.
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God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
