Douglas Coupland Quotes
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My father was a lawyer.
Pat Robertson -
If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
Mahavira -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
F. Sionil Jose -
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
Ingmar Bergman
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady Gaga -
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
Walter Gropius -
I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
Mackenzie Foy -
I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
Wayne Rooney -
In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
Panayiotis Zavos -
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Barbara Walters
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It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
Candace Bushnell -
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot -
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Sam Mendes -
I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.
Omar Sy -
Is all the world jails and churches?
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.
David D. Burns -
I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
Tamron Hall -
In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.
Bruno Tonioli -
The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.
Glen Campbell -
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
Douglas Coupland