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If a building looks better und...

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Earth was not built for six bi...

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

People are pretty forgiving wh...

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

It's very strange that most pe...

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Forget about being world famou...

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Make your goals big and broad ...

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

You can't fake creativity, com...

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Making eye contact with adults...

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

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People will always choose more...

People will always choose more money over more sex

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

You've seen what you've seen; ...

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

If I think too much about all ...

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

If someone decides to be a mus...

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

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If your life had lyrics, would...

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

The harder you try to become t...

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

You know, I think the people I...

You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

Douglas Coupland 371 quotes

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness exp...

Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, 'Life must be lived forward.

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Post-adolescent Expert Syndrom...

Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. 'Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becomi

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Do you remember how you felt a...

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.

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Society indeed conspires to ke...

Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.

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I thought it would be such a s...

I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....