Douglas Coupland Quotes
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
Douglas Coupland
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
Patrick Swayze
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
Ferdinand Mount
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
Nadia Comaneci
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
Abraham Polonsky
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
Rain
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Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
Sam Yagan
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Iggy Pop, or should I say Iggy's people, had reached out to me saying he was a True Blood fan, and if any opportunities come up, to please keep Iggy in mind. We sent Iggy the demo of 'LB&R'. He loved it and said, 'Sign me up.'
Gary Calamar
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
Patrick Dempsey
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In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.
James Surowiecki
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I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
Janis Joplin
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.
Frank Murphy
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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
Douglas Coupland
