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'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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No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.
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If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.
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Copying is a form of self-validation.
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Nobody likes being told who or what they are.