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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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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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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You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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He was... a womanizer, he wanted to be in the sack with everybody.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstanding; others, because they understand each other too well.
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I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.
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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
