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Douglas Wood Quotes

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 19, 1957

Topics

People Me Nothing Stage High Being

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

John Lee Hooker

Lights Detroit Bright Taste Big Got

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Hell Paradise Right Should Use

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.

Family Good Women Son Wife Ambition

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.

Looking Feeling Now Never Where Our

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Good Morning End Week Go Three

It's cool because here everybody has the same goal. We're all competing for our countries. We're all coming down here to do our best. And we all are the best athletes in our own countries.

Michelle Carter

Best Cool Goal Down Same Own

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

Thought Brooklyn Never Out Apartment

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

World Rich Feedback Create Top Weak

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Douglas Coupland

Brain Thinking Process You Down Try

My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.

History Singing Always David Bowie

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his carpentry.

Father Hands Anything Carpenter Just

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

Arnold H. Glasow

Future Past Happy Present Plan Who

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