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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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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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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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
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We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses for digital technologies like Facebook but also real-life social networks to improve healthcare provision.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.
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Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.
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Hip flasks are the juice machines of the alcohol world - everyone has one and it never gets used.
