Douglas Coupland Quotes
… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Makeup can help you capture a moment.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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Eye without lid, mind without any dream -These are of minstrels lacking minstrelsy, Of an earth in which the first leaf is the tale Of leaves, in which the sparrow is a birdOf stone, that never changes. Bethou him, you And you, bethou him and bethou. It is A sound like any other. It will end.
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Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.
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… after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? … What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?
