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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In Democratic administrations, I visit the White House.
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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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Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it.
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Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God.
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I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
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Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
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Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.
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It's OK to fail once in awhile.
