Douglas Coupland Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty -
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Yo-Yo Ma -
When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
Nadia Comaneci
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
Pat Roberts -
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Harlan Coben -
I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
Lady Gaga -
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
Sam Wyly -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
Rachel Zoe -
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan -
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von Clausewitz -
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen
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Space is very unforgiving business.
Leroy Chiao -
Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
Ann Demeulemeester -
I do not shrink from uttering my firm conviction that it would be a gain to the country were it vastly more superstitious, more bigoted, more gloomy, more fierce in its religion than at present it shows itself to be.
John Henry Newman -
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Bill Nye -
The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
Jack Dangermond -
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
Douglas Coupland