Douglas Coupland Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
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Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.
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Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.
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I'm not against a border wall, OK, but go to China, and you'll see a border wall there. We need technology, we need drones, we need surveillance capabilities, and we need rapid-reaction capabilities.
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You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.
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Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.
