#use

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #being #failure #genuine #pure

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#being #else #get #nothing #simply

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. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#decides #end #hope #means #money

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#dead #death #idols #less #makes

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #could #like #person #sleeping

With Whitesnake it would have been inappropriate for me to have played Deep Purple songs, although I did at the beginning because I didn't have enough Whitesnake songs. ↗

— David Coverdale

#because #been #beginning #deep #deep purple

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#because #character #composite #consistent #constantly

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#focused #football #i #now #right

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#fine #fine thing #house #keeping #luster