Douglas Coupland Quotes
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.
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Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
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The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
