Douglas Coupland Quotes
You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
Quotes to Explore
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.
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What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.
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I suspect that over time we will rely increasingly, or take notice at least increasingly, on international and foreign courts in examining domestic issues. Doing so may not only enrich our own country's decisions, I think it may create that all important good impression.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
