Douglas Coupland Quotes
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
Daniel Bryan -
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson -
That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
Dana Schutz -
I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
Caitriona Balfe -
My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
Carlene Carter -
Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
Samora Machel
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
Samuel Johnson -
Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
C. S. Lewis -
I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
Yehudi Menuhin -
What draws us to him so closely is that he combined a disillusioned estimate of human nature sufficient to launch twenty little cynics, with a craving for love any sympathy urgent enough to turn a weaker nature into a benign sentimentalist.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger -
The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
Edward Carpenter
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
Margaret Mead -
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
Pauly Shore -
In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Bob Beckel -
My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
Anat Cohen -
I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
Emma Roberts -
When I was younger, I was quite scared of a red lip. But I started listening to '60s French ye-ye pop when I was making 'Sucker.' I was looking at Brigitte Bardot and those kinds of girls. When they were dressed up, it was often a bold red lip.
Charli XCX