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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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
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...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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I find that many modern fantasies explain things away far too easily, which makes a lot of it overly familiar (to me, anyway). Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that's one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore.
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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.
