John Gourley Quotes
It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
Quotes to Explore
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
Idris Elba
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
Om Puri
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry
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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
Ed Pastor
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman
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Making your first feature film is actually impossible.
Yahoo Serious
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
Nas
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
Rachel Miner
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine
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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
Caroline Kennedy
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer
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It's silly to me to not be positive about rock advancing and growing. Really, we just want rock n' roll to be mainstream.
John Gourley
Portugal. The Man
