Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn -
I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
Mahershala Ali -
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
Karl Lagerfeld -
For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.
Vin Diesel
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
Malcolm X -
It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
Mackenzie Davis -
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Daniel Barenboim -
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
Irvine Welsh -
Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
Nadia Comaneci -
Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.
Omar Epps
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In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
Barry O'Farrell -
Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
Sam Wyly -
I think libertarians need somebody who can articulate getting from A to Z. But you know, if G is achievable, how about it? Let's get there!
Gary Johnson -
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
Gabe Newell -
Widowed wife and wedded maid.
Walter Scott
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I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen -
Medical disenfranchisement is fueled by a host of factors that include worsening shortage of primary care doctors in needy communities and a troubling scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured. Adding to the trend are fewer medical students choosing primary care over more lucrative and specialized fields.
Danny K. Davis -
I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.
Marie Helvin -
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor -
I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
Douglas Coupland