Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood -
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
Magdi Yacoub -
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
Daniel Dennett -
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell -
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
Oleg Cassini -
Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
Laura Schlessinger -
On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Naomi Judd -
When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
Zahi Hawass -
I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
Mads Mikkelsen
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
Gary Oldman -
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen -
What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
Iggy Pop -
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
Fidel Castro -
Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
Samuel Chase
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Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal phase.
Pope John Paul II -
What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.
Shawn Mendes -
I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.
Zack Snyder -
I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
Bella Thorne -
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison The Doors -
You're smarter than TV. So what?
Douglas Coupland