Douglas Coupland Quotes
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.Douglas Coupland
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
Pankaj Mishra -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
Patricia Hewitt -
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
Dan Brown
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
S. Truett Cathy -
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
Dan Harmon -
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
D. H. Lawrence -
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn -
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
Vera Farmiga -
You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
Zach LaVine
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
Naomie Harris -
People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
Paddy Considine -
It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
Barry Sternlicht -
I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.
Naomi Scott -
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
Ira Glass -
I have always wanted an Olympic medal. I always wanted to see India's national flag going up at the podium.
Saina Nehwal
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Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
Andy Partridge -
If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner -
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Douglas Coupland