Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
Quincy Jones -
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
Garik Israelian -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino -
It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
Karen Salmansohn -
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E. M. Forster -
It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
Rachel Bloom -
When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
Sam Worthington -
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
Zooey Deschanel -
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
Daniel D. Palmer -
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
Tabare Vazquez -
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett -
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
Randy Pausch -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
Odette Annable
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What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
Yves Behar -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.
Claire Denis -
I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human characteristics. It's something that I really like about myself. [...] I want to understand stuff! I want to understand people! Following my curiosity so frequently leads me to better life decisions and better business decisions but also - just feeling better! You're never going to feel bad about your whole life if you loved people and you were curious. I mean, that's kind of all I want!
Hank Green -
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom -
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
Douglas Coupland