John Gourley Quotes
Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
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My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
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I firmly ascribe to the concept that music is 100 percent subjective. If you’re hearing music and it sounds good and beautiful to you, then that makes it beautiful. It’s all within the listener. It’s not important for other people to tell you how they react.
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I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was probably in bed with Wall Street.
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I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.
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Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.
