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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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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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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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.
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We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.'
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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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.
