Douglas Coupland Quotes
Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
Douglas Coupland
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
Frances O'Grady
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
Fabiola Gianotti
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Frances McDormand
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
Bayard Taylor
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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
Gary Locke
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
T. S. Eliot
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
Corita Kent
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
Malcolm Gladwell
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For I now saw, or thought I saw, what I had always before received with incredulity - that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings: as indeed it has, when no other mental habit is cultivated, and the analysing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives.
John Stuart Mill
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But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Brazilification: The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
Douglas Coupland