John Gourley Quotes
'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.
Quotes to Explore
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.
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Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
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Naming something, putting it on record, in a lyric, feels like affirming people. Ideally, that's what politicians should want to do: to put laws or policies in place that speak to people's experiences, to make them feel heard.
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I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.
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When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
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'Feel It Still' came around pretty much as organically as you can put a song together.
