John Gourley Quotes

You can never really know what a record's going to be.

John Gourley Portugal. The Man

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• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Photography

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Feeling

• It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Game
  • Career

• Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Love
  • Play
  • Rules

• Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Most
  • India
  • Partners

• I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Heart
  • American

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Better

• Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Winning
  • My Life

• I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • True
  • Atheist
  • Pope

• We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Human

• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Doubt

• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • True
  • Stop

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Words

• Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels.

  

  Elinor Ostrom
  • Good
  • Family
  • Done

• I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Life
  • Good

• It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

  

  Jamie Parker
  • Done
  • Leaving

• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  

  William Feather
  • Children
  • Moral
  • Lying

• You can never really know what a record's going to be.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man