Douglas Coupland Quotes
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Douglas Coupland
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Jack Kerouac
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
Kapil Dev
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
Victor LaValle
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
Beau Willimon
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
Dan Wheldon
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
Salma Hayek
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
Barry Sanders
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
Natalie Massenet
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Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it's a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don't always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it's all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride.
Austin Stowell
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Went in at the tone eare and out at the tother.
John Heywood
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
John Milton
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I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
Billie Eilish
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
Jacki Weaver
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Douglas Coupland
