Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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 -
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 -
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
Candy Crowley
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Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.
Jimmy Smits -
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.
Wilfred Trotter -
If I had known it was harmlessI would have killed it myself.
Philip K. Dick -
You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
I'm a huge David Hockney fan.
Johnny Flynn -
You're smarter than TV. So what?
Douglas Coupland