Douglas Coupland Quotes
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
M. C. Gainey -
I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
Adam Carolla -
What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.
Salmon P. Chase -
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
Parker Posey -
I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
Walter Cronkite
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
W. Clement Stone -
I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
Eddie Trunk -
I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
Dacre Montgomery -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
Walter Isaacson -
I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Malcolm X -
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
Beau Bridges -
A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.
Valentina Tereshkova -
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
Beau Willimon -
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
Malcolm McDowell -
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley
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Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.
Nellie McKay -
From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.
Katie Kitamura -
But woman brings disorder into society through passion.
Honore de Balzac -
Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.
Liu Xiang -
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
Douglas Coupland