Douglas Coupland Quotes
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act.
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I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.
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As apt and applicable as the Declaration of Independence is today, we would do well to honor that other historic document drafted in this hall - the Constitution of the United States. For it stressed not independence but interdependence - not the individual liberty of one but the indivisible liberty of all.
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I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
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I've thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.
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Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.
