Douglas Coupland Quotes
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
Douglas Coupland
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
Sam Harris
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
Patrick Macnee
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
Harold Bloom
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
Karin Slaughter