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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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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What's really good is African drum music.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
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When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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You wilfully ignore the small, gentle observations in life which you know are the most important.
