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.
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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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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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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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A civil war is going to break out inside the Republican Party along the old trench lines of the Goldwater-Rockefeller wars of the 1960s, a war for the heart and soul and future of the party.
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No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'
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Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.
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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.
