Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes -
I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
T. Boone Pickens -
I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
Cam Gigandet -
At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
Laura Dern -
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.
Samuel Adams -
Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
Karl Schroeder
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
Danica McKellar -
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac -
The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
Quinn Shephard -
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
Barton Gellman -
Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
Karl Schroeder -
My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
Artie Shaw -
There's not a single thing on offer in this all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul.
Alan Keyes -
He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.
Howard Jacobson -
I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.
Marian Seldes -
I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.
Mark Consuelos -
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
Daniel Goleman
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I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.
Tom Berenger -
You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
Mikhail Gorbachev -
We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
Victoria Osteen -
Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
Douglas Coupland