John Gourley Quotes
There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.
Quotes to Explore
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.
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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I think if you look at the realm we're discussing, which is the political realm, I think it would be impossible to find an action by any politician intended to specifically favor either my firm or myself.
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There are some athletes who I feel like are just looking for likes, and then there are people who are just real.
