Douglas Coupland Quotes
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
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I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
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I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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Sprache entsteht, wie das Bewußtsein, erst aus dem Bedürfnis, der Notdurft des Verkehrs mit anderen Menschen.
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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I loved: and in the morning sky, A magic castle upward grew!
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a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
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When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
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See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
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I loved when my folks would watch 'The Dean Martin Show.'
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I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.
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Start at B. Yes. No. Yes. No.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
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Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools.
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One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
