Douglas Coupland Quotes
If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
Quotes to Explore
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I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
