Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
Dada Vaswani -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Maggie Q -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
K. A. Applegate -
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots -
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes -
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
Pablo Sandoval -
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig -
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver -
We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
Aaron D. O'Connell -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
Tammy Baldwin -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde -
Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
David Ignatius
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I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticisms that we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nominees should not be subjected to distortions of their record, taking things they've done out of context.
Jeff Sessions -
Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
Meghan Daum -
The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
Newt Gingrich -
Win back America for God.
Katherine Harris -
North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
Douglas Coupland