Douglas Coupland Quotes
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.
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I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.
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When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar,'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
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'We are going so slow,' Noah said, craning his neck to observe the inevitable queue behind them. 'I think I just saw a tricycle pass us.''Rude.'
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The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.
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Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
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I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
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Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.
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The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
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We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.
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There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
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Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
