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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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
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Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
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We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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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.
