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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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

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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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• Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

  

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• You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat.

  

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• Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

  

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• Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

  

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• My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.

  

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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