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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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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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
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I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
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I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we stay in or go out, I like a hardy meal. My grandmother taught me how to cook, and it was all about no fuss and lots of it.
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I'm not living off of any taxpayer money. If I am - if it's food stamps, it's a temporary resource.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
