John Gourley Quotes
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
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It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roarBut bind him to his native mountains more.
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For the kingdom of heaven is with us today.
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
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For whatever reason, I am now fully conscious. Perhaps all beta-levels are capable of this, or perhaps my sheer connectional complexity ensured that I exceeded some state of critical mass. I have no idea. All I know is that I think, and therefore I’m exceedingly angry.
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I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
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I think fans are just obsessed with the 'Twilight' saga and then within it they might have preferences between if they're Team Jacob, Team Edward or Team Jasper. It just comes down to them loving the whole thing, and if they can get any of the boys from the book they are fine with that.
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And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.
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People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
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It's OK to fail once in awhile.
