Douglas Coupland Quotes
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.
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My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.
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I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.
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Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
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I grew up in Michigan and - where to start? I mean, my dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public school teacher. There's no artists in my family whatsoever.
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Home is where the heart is.
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I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.
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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
