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 like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.
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There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.
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There are a lot of songs about love and how it starts, whether that's realizing it yourself or coming to find it later on - but no sort of talk about the actual feelings that are created from love and passion.
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Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
