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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I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.
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President Trump ran on protecting U.S. jobs and renegotiating unfair trade policies - those policies strengthen labor laws around the world.
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Oh shall I see the Thames again?The prow-promoted gems again,As beefy ATSWithout their hatsCome shooting through the bridge?And 'cheerioh' and 'cheeri-bye'Across the waste of waters die,And low the mists of evening lieAnd lightly skims the midge.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
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If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.
