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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Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.
Bernie Sanders
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To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.
Edwin S. Shneidman
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I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.
Ryan Guzman
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Gabrielle Union
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It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife.
Tad Williams
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
Douglas Coupland
