Bob Goff Quotes
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.
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Once you’re in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.
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Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.
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I'm no good at breakin' off with people.
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It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
