Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker -
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
Ted Danson -
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Edmund White -
If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
Earl Wilson -
I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
Hal Sutton -
I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
Naftali Bennett
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
Sam Ewing -
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. Chidambaram -
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
Abdoulaye Wade -
During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
Ferdinand Piech -
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
Madison Pettis -
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
Lactantius
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
Valerie Jarrett -
Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.
Patch Adams -
I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
Patricia Heaton -
The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
G. Stanley Hall -
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.
Otto von Bismarck
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I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn't think of being on 'American Idol.' I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have.
Lauren Alaina -
When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.
Klaus Meine Scorpions -
I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
Jasper Fforde -
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.
Sean Astin -
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad -
I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.
Douglas Coupland