Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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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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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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You still don't know what you do well.
