John Gourley Quotes
Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
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I believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
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The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.
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Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.
