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 -
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
Damien Hirst -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
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 -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Barbra Streisand -
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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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell -
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder -
No one remembers who came in second.
Walter Hagen -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
Sai Baba
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher -
I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
Tao Okamoto -
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams -
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
Randy Travis -
Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
Rachel Nichols
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
Barack Obama -
There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.
Eve Babitz -
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden -
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
Jesse Ventura -
Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Douglas Coupland