John Gourley Quotes

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

John Gourley Portugal. The Man

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Love
  • Person
  • For Her

• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Trying
  • School
  • Law

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Think
  • Respect
  • Environment

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Privilege
  • Serve
  • Honour

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Thoughts
  • Dog
  • Speak

• It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Doing
  • Lose

• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Peace
  • Government

• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sports

• The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Fans

• The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Character

• Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Study
  • Lie

• I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart.

  

  Amber Valletta
  • Heart
  • Girl

• I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

  

  Ben Shneiderman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Unity

• Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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