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 didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.
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Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
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But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
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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?
