John Gould Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Now watch me go retarded, yellow short bus.
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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
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Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
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With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?'
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.
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If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
