Douglas Coupland Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
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I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
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I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
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It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
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She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
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Elect me as your congressman today, I promise you an Ilocano president in 20 years.
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As Blake said, there is no competition between true poets.
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I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.
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Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
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I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person.
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I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
