Douglas Coupland Quotes

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
  • God
  • Money
  • Kids

• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Wrinkles

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Eye
  • Stupid
  • Doing

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Crazy
  • Myself
  • Wise

• I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Long
  • Government

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Change
  • Ready
  • Be Prepared

• Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Night

• If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

  

  John Travolta
  • Play
  • Sexy
  • Wells

• But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

  

  John Adams
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Forever

• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Good
  • God
  • Friends

• Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Great
  • Film

• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Great
  • God