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.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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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.

  

  Mal Peet
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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.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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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.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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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.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
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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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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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.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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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.

  

  Aaron Schock
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• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
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• My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
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• My biggest tip is this... treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn't have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn't work for me.

  

  James Corden
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• I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Food
  • Cat