Bob Goff Quotes
People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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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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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.
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People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
