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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In the old days, I'm ashamed to say I recommended not wearing hearing protection while hunting, ... We felt it was more dangerous not to be able to hear a rattlesnake, a warning or another hunter. And we wanted to be able to hear the steps of a deer or the gobble of a distant wild turkey.
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A President cannot always be popular.
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Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean something different to me as a 35 year-old person than they did when I was 25. I know I'm still that person who wrote it and thought I knew what I meant when I was writing them. They meant something very exact to me in that time of my life. But it's really cool when those same lyrics can transform into something else and mean something entirely different to me.
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Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.
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If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
