Douglas Coupland Quotes
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.Douglas Coupland
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison -
We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose -
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Tammy Bruce -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
Garrett Clayton -
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. Wilson
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
Dale Dauten -
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver -
There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
E. W. Howe -
There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
Forest Whitaker
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
Garth Brooks -
There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
Sam Jaeger -
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
Felix Frankfurter -
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook -
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
Aaron Sorkin -
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland
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But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
Dave Eggers -
Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
Tavi Gevinson -
Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
T. S. Eliot -
And people are always saying: 'Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you've got the clout.' That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it's true, unfortunately.
Kathy Bates -
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Dimitar Sasselov -
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
Douglas Coupland