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 -
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 -
Events tend to recur in cycles.
W. Clement Stone
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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 -
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
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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 -
Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
Garth Brooks
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The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.
Lola Kirke -
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.
Kirsten Prout -
In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
Douglas Coupland