Douglas Coupland Quotes
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
Malin Akerman -
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
Fiona Shaw -
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz -
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
Patrick deWitt -
If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
Taron Egerton
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden -
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
Pardis Sabeti -
We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
Ralph Merkle -
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.
Edmund Hillary
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
Beatrice Wood -
I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.
Fantasia Barrino -
I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
Mallory Ortberg -
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
Fernando Botero -
The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
Edward Abbey
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Ch'un almo gaudio, un così gran contentoNon potrebbe comprare oro né argento.
Ludovico Ariosto -
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.
Andy Serkis -
That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
Christina Aguilera -
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
George Washington -
“Liberty isn't bestowed; it's achieved. It is not a gift; it's a conquest. It does not abide; it must be preserved.”
Albert E. Bowen -
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
Douglas Coupland