Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I’ve watched therapy getting more and more mushy in the past fifteen years in America.... It’s become what I call coercive compassion. It’s disgusting, it’s condescending, it’s insulting, it’s coddling, it keeps everyone in an infantile condition rather than in the adult condition that was the ultimate goal of Freudian analysis.
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Go to work every day, be the first one in and the last one to leave, and you'll know that you've done everything in your power to make your life better.
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I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.
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Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
