John Gourley Quotes
A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
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According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
