Douglas Coupland Quotes
Historical Underdosing: To living a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I never lie to my fans.
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I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
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Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.
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I'm always investing and building things at the same time.
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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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Historical Underdosing: To living a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.
