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
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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 -
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 -
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
Sam Harris -
But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
Patrick Macnee -
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 -
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 -
I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford -
In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
Karin Slaughter -
I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
Carl Bernstein -
I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
Faye Marsay -
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
Anton Zaslavski -
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith -
Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
Aaron Neville -
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
Aaron Staton -
You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
In our culture, I think that there is no markers anymore. Young men don't really have something that says you're a grown up now, until you have a baby.
Antoine Fuqua -
What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
Pete Hamill -
We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
Jim Lampley -
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