Douglas Coupland Quotes
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.Douglas Coupland
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
Kate Beckinsale -
My personality is extremely unbalanced.
Walter O'Brien -
I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
Abigail Disney -
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
Yair Lapid -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
Warren Buffett
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
Kapil Dev -
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
Maajid Nawaz -
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
Kate Adie -
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
Paddy Ashdown -
I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
Mandy Patinkin -
A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
Irvine Welsh
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
Taylor Sheridan -
The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
Gavyn Davies -
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
Mandy Patinkin -
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
Adam Lambert -
I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.
Finn Jones -
You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am a reformed Catholic. I'm a Buddhist in other words.
George Sanders -
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air -
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
Victor Hugo -
People need to realise that their governments are sitting on finite resources that will run out one day. Subsidising power and water is not an ideal solution and does not help reduce consumption. We need to educate people, from a young age, about the importance of conserving energy in their daily lives.
Joe Kaeser -
When I'm filming, I keep my hair in cornrows so that they can fit a wig on top of my hair.
Teyonah Parris -
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
Douglas Coupland