Bob Goff Quotes
When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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I don't think the narrative I was stuck in - the 'black' designer category - was going to go away anytime soon.
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Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
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It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.
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The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy.
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Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
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I guess my critics say, 'He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.' But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
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There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,There's a little marble cross below the town,There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,And the yellow god forever gazes down.
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If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.
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When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
