John Gourley Quotes
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I'm not graceful.
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Health is never going to go out of fashion.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
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And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.
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We must continue to recruit progressive prosecutors to run in local elections, support those who do, and hold them accountable if they win.
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
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To me, sci-fi has the most amazing style.
