Douglas Coupland Quotes
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas Coupland
Quotes to Explore
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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
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
Rakul Preet Singh
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt
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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
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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
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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
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
Omar Dorsey
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina
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I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
Karen Civil
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But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
Arthur Herzog
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We count it crucial to make regular soundings to find out how the public perceives the rating program, and to measure the approval and disapproval of what we are doing... The rating system isn't perfect but, in an imperfect world, it seems each year to match the expectations of those whom it is designed to serve - parents of America.
Jack Valenti
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The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas Coupland
