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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Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.
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What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
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No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.
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There are different ways that people feel like it should be done. Any way that you can add a player -- I don't care if it's a trade, the draft, free agency -- I want to be aggressive. Free agency is a place where you make fewer mistakes because you're not trying to project somebody from a college environment to the pros. You've got somebody that has already played up here and been successful.
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If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
