Douglas Coupland Quotes
Decade Blending: In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood: Sheila = Mary Quant earrings (1960s) + cork wedgie platform shoes (1970s) + black leather jacket (1950s and 1980s).
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.
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I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
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Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.
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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
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The temptation to believe that the Universe is the product of some sort of design, a manifestation of subtle aesthetic and mathematical judgment, is overwhelming. The belief that there is "something behind it all" is one that I personally share with, I suspect, a majority of physicists.
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Decade Blending: In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood: Sheila = Mary Quant earrings (1960s) + cork wedgie platform shoes (1970s) + black leather jacket (1950s and 1980s).
