Douglas Coupland Quotes
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Douglas Coupland
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler
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Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
Buddha
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History, in Nietzsche’s view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men’s great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.
Georg Brandes
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I have nothing against President McKinley whatsoever, but I would rather have this peak be called by the name it has gone by for centuries by Alaskans than a man who never set foot in our state. This is the tallest mountain in North America, and we deserve to have this Alaskan landmark bear an Alaskan name.
Lisa Murkowski
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I think its important, particularly when you've got young children, to spend some time with them.
George Osborne
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The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.
Jeffrey C. Hall
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Douglas Coupland
