Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner -
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
Cara Delevingne -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley -
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
Laura Moser
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
Patricia Riggen -
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
Abby Wambach -
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
Ted Cruz -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
Palmer Luckey
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
Abhishek Bachchan -
A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
Camila Alves -
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Olivia Wilde -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
Abigail Washburn
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
Walter Koenig -
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
Jackson Browne -
I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
J. G. Holland -
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
Douglas Coupland