Bob Goff Quotes
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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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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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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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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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.
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Being a pastor's kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad's sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.
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A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?
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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.
