Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
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I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.
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Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
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While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that we are spending too much of our time testing.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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I think America is a great place to grow up. It's a good lifestyle.
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I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
