Douglas Coupland Quotes
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Douglas Coupland
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
Omari Hardwick
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I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
Carla Gallo
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
Mackenzie Davis
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Beatrice Wood
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
Harri Holkeri
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
Manny Pacquiao
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
Katha Pollitt
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Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi
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Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.
D. H. Lawrence
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Marlon Brando
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
Laurie Graham
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Douglas Coupland
