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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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
Agatha Christie
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
Max Weber
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.
Louis Leakey
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...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.
Will Self
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Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.
Douglas Coupland
