Douglas Coupland Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
Malorie Blackman -
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes -
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer -
In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
Zach Woodlee -
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
Ja Rule
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
Laura Wasser -
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann -
I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
Val Kilmer -
Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
Natasha Lyonne -
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
Warren Christopher
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
Malcolm Boyd -
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
C. Day Lewis -
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.
Nancy Gibbs -
Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
Hans Hofmann -
I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
Barack Obama -
I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
Zooey Deschanel
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The idea of a 'happening' is that there is little distance between the viewer and it, whatever 'it' is. It's an experience that's on-going and evolving.
Doug Aitken -
Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
With the war in Iraq, I had the cooperation of the Department of Defense. Kuwait was pretty eager to get American journalists in there, to show us what a wonderful place they are, and what great allies they are to America, even though they didn't actually fight in the war.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge.
Alexander Osterwalder -
Just remember, it all started with a mouse.
Walt Disney -
Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
Douglas Coupland