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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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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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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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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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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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
Aasif Mandvi
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
Abbie Cornish
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
Vidal Sassoon
