Douglas Coupland Quotes
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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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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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
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The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
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People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
