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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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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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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As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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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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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
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Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.
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What I want is the world to remember the problems and the people I photograph. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this. I don't want people to look at them and appreciate the light and the palate of tones. I want them to look inside and see what the pictures represent, and the kind of people I photograph.
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It's OK to fail once in awhile.
