Douglas Coupland Quotes
Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
Douglas Coupland
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Barbara Kruger
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
R. Lee Ermey
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I'm a political conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
Taylor Negron
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
Obie Trice
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
Sam Kinison
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
Dane Cook
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People have always asked, 'Do you prefer comedy or drama?' And my answer is, 'Both, at the same time.'
Connie Britton
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Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Alex Berenson
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Restaurants in Chicago are seldom disappointing.
Bonnie Hunt
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If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
Blackie Sherrod
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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.
Douglas Coupland
