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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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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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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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring.
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Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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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.
