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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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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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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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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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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There's no better exercise than dancing. 'Dancing with the Stars' is amazing. I used to take it for granted, but the three months you spend on the show, with that grueling regimen, you just shed weight. You can eat anything you want and it doesn't stick.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
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Twinkies are more natural than most TV-interview shows.
