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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Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
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In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.
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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
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Why would you watch an Oscar-nominated film unless you're mad enough to purposely experience feelings? Bleh. I'm not interested in catching those.
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It's OK to fail once in awhile.
