Douglas Coupland Quotes
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
Ice T -
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
Laura Linney -
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
Orhan Pamuk -
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess -
I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
La'Porsha Renae -
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
Camille Paglia
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
Walter Gropius -
My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar -
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
Danica Patrick -
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
Nate Parker
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
Harlan Coben -
Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
Ian Hart -
I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
Vicki Lawrence -
I have a pretty lousy voice.
Adam Brody -
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
Kate Williams
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Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.
Karen Armstrong -
The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.
Jason Calacanis -
Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're going to be pretty angry.
Barack Obama -
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.
Vidal Sassoon -
On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.
Alan Taylor -
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
Douglas Coupland