Douglas Coupland Quotes
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.Douglas Coupland
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams -
I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
Katey Sagal -
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
Sam Francis -
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
Saint Ignatius -
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
Zara Larsson
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz -
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
Zendaya -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
Statistics is the grammar of science.
Karl Pearson -
I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
Laura Prepon
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton -
The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker -
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
Magic Johnson -
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
Kate Chopin -
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
Laura Carmichael
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
Cal Hubbard -
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
J. C. Watts -
In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
Azar Nafisi -
I would rather stop making movies too soon than too late.
Luc Besson -
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland