Douglas Coupland Quotes
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
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I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.
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Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.
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I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.
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We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.
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The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
