Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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
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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
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell
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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
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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
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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
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
Naomi Judd
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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
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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
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
Iggy Pop
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
Carles Puigdemont
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People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
J. G. Ballard
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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
Norman Hartnell
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The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.
Nick van de Wall
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I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
Debby Ryan
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
Douglas Coupland