Douglas Coupland Quotes
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My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO.
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.
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I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.
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You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.
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Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces.
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If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
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Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.
