Douglas Coupland Quotes
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.
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I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
