Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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I'm never going to be a size zero and, to be honest I don't want to be.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don't like people who won't give me a straight answer. I don't like those kinds of people, and I've been vocal about it.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.
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If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas
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Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.
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Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
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Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.
