Douglas Coupland Quotes
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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People have lost their faith that if they work hard, if they try to get ahead, if they play by the rules, then that will ultimately result in positive outcomes.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.
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How do we get a pantomime cow on set. Jeez, the rigours of satire.
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You always have to prepare for the obstacles that are going to come. Consequently, when they do come, it doesn't affect you mentally near as much as when you're unprepared for them.
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No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website.
