Douglas Coupland Quotes
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me.
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I'm a lion. I'm not tough, but I am strong. I'm definitely not a wallflower.
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Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.
