#ling

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#indication #unique #uniqueness

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#even #love #need #right #say

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#makes #people #relaxed #telling #them

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

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. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#chinese #covered #crude #crude oil #ducks

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#cartoon #constantly #continuous #fabric #miracles

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#because #defeated #increase #job-killing #jobs

I originally had an idea about a family of people who were homeless, just traveling around without any solid roots or any home, who made their way around working wherever they could. I started it with them. The idea of Joe as a protagonist came along a little later. ↗

— Larry Brown

#along #any #around #came #could

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ↗

— Les Brown

#come #compelling #enough #hunger #invariably