Douglas Coupland Quotes
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
Quotes to Explore
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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There's something happening in the world that didn't happen before. We are acting like one big brain.
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I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can't all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it's the secular spirit that they contest.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
