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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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I try to avoid political ties.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
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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.
