Douglas Coupland Quotes

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
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• They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
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• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
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• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
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• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
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• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
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• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
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• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.

  

  Javier Solana
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• Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.

  

  Jeremy Heimans
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• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • God
  • Spiritual
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• I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

  

  Nikolay Davydenko

• Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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