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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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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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 just lost interest in performing.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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The next step for me is not 'The Tonight Show.' That's a job for Jimmy Fallon. I'm way too divisive for a show like that.
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Commerce seems to be covering every aspect of our lives now. Which me, because I'm a romantic, is sad for me to say.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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The reason why I think Reddit is still around and some of our competitors are not is because we were really adamant about maintaining the integrity of the site.
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I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.
Charles B. Rangel -
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
