Douglas Coupland Quotes
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
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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 love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
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It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
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I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
