Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.
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I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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You are not in control of your mind-because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.
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And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted - 'Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more'.
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I know you need to go,But before you do I want you to know, that IWish you the best.And I wish you nothing lessThan every thing you've ever dreamed of.And I hope that you find love along the way.But most of all,I wish you'd stay.
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I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.
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The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the fact that many of these were brilliant men, but they were also men with deep prejudices against people of color, against indigenous people, against women.
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T to the R-uh-O-Y, how did you and I meet?
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People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.
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What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else.
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I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
