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Ideas Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,…
- Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past…
- ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But…
- This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some…
- When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume…
- I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t…
- I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more…
- I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe