Douglas Coupland Quotes
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.Douglas Coupland
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Naomi Klein -
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
Jaan Tallinn -
Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
Karen DeCrow -
One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
J. G. Ballard
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
Mandy Moore -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
Irina Shayk -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk -
My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine -
Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
Abagail Johnson -
I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden -
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins -
I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
Nacho Figueras -
Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
Kim Stanley Robinson -
Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.
Ali Akbar Khan -
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
Douglas Coupland