Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I learn so much on Twitter all the time, and it would be a shame not to share that with my readers.
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I believe Ted Cruz is the right candidate for the right time in our country's history. A proven leader and a consistent conservative who will fight the Washington cartel and stand up for the American people.
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An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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'Remember is the last month,' said Festival. 'Remember's not a month.' 'Of course it is,' said Festival. 'There are twelve months thirty days long and the five days at the end of the year that are left over are called Remember. It's when we all remember what happened in the past year, all the people who were born and all the people who died. You have to have Remember, otherwise you'd start the next year out of balance.
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Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
