Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
Mackenzie Rosman -
We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan -
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
Ike Barinholtz -
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 -
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
Jaan Tallinn
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
Olivia Culpo -
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
Pat Oliphant -
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang -
There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
Ralph Baer -
It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.
Uday Kotak -
I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
Mahershala Ali
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Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.
Tahl Raz -
I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
Sam Trammell -
Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
Adam Cohen -
As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.
Malcolm X -
'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.''Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'
Jack Vance -
He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.
Octavia E. Butler
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I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola -
Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
Larry Craig -
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
Larry Williams -
Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
Charles Kingsley -
I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
Douglas Coupland