Douglas Coupland Quotes
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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My father had very little formal education.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping.
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
