Douglas Coupland Quotes
Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
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Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
