Douglas Coupland Quotes
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Douglas Coupland
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
Haley Bennett
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
Walker Stapleton
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
Daniel Barenboim
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The job as a coach is difficult.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Nancy Reagan
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
Laura Dern
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
Ian Thorpe
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
Sadie Jones
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
Sally Phillips
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
Taylor Lautner
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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A. R. Rahman
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
Gabrielle Union
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
Barrett Foa
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Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt, never consented to a wrong deed, nor performed one, but holds itself above all sin, impeccable, immaculate, immutable, the deity of the heart, the conscience of the soul, the oracle and interpreter, the judge and executor of the divine law.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
Lewis Mumford
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I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
Ian Cameron Esslemont
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When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
Douglas Coupland
