Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.
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Just because people count you out and don't give you any love ... how about making them all fools?
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If I were to run around the world playing just the cello concertos - and believe me, I love playing them - I would be counting my entire repertoire from year to year on my two hands.
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My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time, I had to pick one, and I felt much more confident in the arts than I did in chemistry. My big thing was that I actually wanted to be like Jacques Cousteau.
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I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
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McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one.
