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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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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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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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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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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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
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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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When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.
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I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.
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To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
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The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
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If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
