Douglas Coupland Quotes
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I try to do my best every game to help the pitchers and help my team win. That's it.
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I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there.
