Douglas Coupland Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
Garrett Neff
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
Garry Shandling
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
Katey Sagal
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Sammy Hagar
Chickenfoot
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
Aaron Peirsol
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
Walter Payton
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
Daisy Ashford
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Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
Barbara Delinsky
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The Internet is crazy, and I love it!
Zach Anner
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I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
Dan Quinn
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
Nancy Farmer
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My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.
Edmund Hillary
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Without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information, and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible.
Barack Obama
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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
Warren Farrell
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I'm very inappropriate, which makes me a problem dinner guest, because at some point during the evening someone inevitably says, 'OK, heh heh heh, OK, too much information! Heh heh heh. Don't go there!' I live there. I bought a house there.
Margaret Cho
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Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.
Benjamin Walker
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Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
Gabrielle Giffords
