Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
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You still don't know what you do well.
