Douglas Coupland Quotes
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.Douglas Coupland
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck -
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey -
I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
Patrick Ness -
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure -
I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
Sam Heughan
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski -
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga -
I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
Harrison Ford -
When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
Oliver Sim The xx -
So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
Vince McMahon
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
Hamid Karzai -
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Eckhart Tolle -
How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
Valentino Rossi -
Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
Aaron Ciechanover -
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
A. E. van Vogt -
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Oscar Isaac
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VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group text or Twitter stream of commentary playing out across time zones when a team is playing, our avatars could inhabit virtual stands, side by side with the rest of our digital tribe.
Mary Pilon -
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
Kara Walker -
I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
Gabrielle Union -
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
Laini Taylor -
La Fortuna, che dei pazzi ha cura.
Ludovico Ariosto -
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
Douglas Coupland