John Gould Quotes
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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Filmmaking is such a collaborative piece of art that you can't look to one person - you couldn't look to me, you couldn't say, 'Because Vin's in it, it's this or that...' It's really all of us coming together for that period of time to try and make magic.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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The cup of life is not so shallow That we have drained the best That all the wine at once we swallow And lees make all the rest.
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We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
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You are the sun,You are the rainThat makes my life this foolish game.You need to knowI love you so.And I'd do it all again and again.
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In the Conservative Party, we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us, it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters. It is what you are and what you can do for our country that counts. That is our vision.
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For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.
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The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
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I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
