Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.
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A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
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What draws us to him so closely is that he combined a disillusioned estimate of human nature sufficient to launch twenty little cynics, with a craving for love any sympathy urgent enough to turn a weaker nature into a benign sentimentalist.
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Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.
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I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
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You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
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What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.
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Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
