Douglas Coupland Quotes
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.Douglas Coupland
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
Calvin Johnson -
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells -
I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
Pat Robertson -
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Gary Hamel -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt -
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams -
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
Ian MacKaye -
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina -
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
Barry Commoner -
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.
Taylor Negron -
I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.
Abdallah Salem el-Badri
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
S. Truett Cathy -
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
Fiona Apple -
Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty -
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Seth Godin -
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas Coupland