Douglas Coupland Quotes

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Douglas Coupland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1961

Topics

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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Jimmy Carter

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I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

Jody Hill

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Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!

Megan Mullally

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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash

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The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Amanda Lindhout

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It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

Troy Vincent

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I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.

Rooney Mara

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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Michel de Montaigne

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No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

Michael Scheuer

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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Mitt Romney

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The experience of being a young, blonde, naive but well-intentioned young producer was both intimidating and eye-opening.

Clarissa Ward

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I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

Paul Wesley

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