John Gourley Quotes
We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.
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On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out of my tooth and had to have it sanded down. It wasn't the most painful injury, but it was the most unexpected one.
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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
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We've always done what we do, and we go out and try and get better with each record we make.
