Douglas Coupland Quotes
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.Douglas Coupland
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
Nancy Lopez -
The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
Felix Dennis -
If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
Salman Rushdie -
Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr -
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
Carine Roitfeld -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher -
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman -
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
Ted Deutch
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch -
I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.
LeBron James -
I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.
Rita Ora -
I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.
Andrew Solomon -
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Douglas Coupland