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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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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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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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
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Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.
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When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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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.
