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Doug Coupland

"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."

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Donna Grant

"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."

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Donna Grant

"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."

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Donna Grant

"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."

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Donna Grant

"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."

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Donna Grant

"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."

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Donna Grant

"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."

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Donna Grant

"We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex."

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Donna Grant

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

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Donna Grant

"Mothers are the necessity of invention."

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Doug Coupland
"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

Needs

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

Family

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Doug Coupland
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

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Doug Coupland
"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Cultural

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Doug Coupland
"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."

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Doug Coupland
"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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Doug Coupland
"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."

People

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Doug Coupland
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

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Doug Coupland
"Where does personality end and brain damage begin?"

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Doug Coupland
"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

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