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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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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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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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
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I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
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Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
