Douglas Coupland Quotes
We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
Quotes to Explore
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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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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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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My family is the largest single contributor of soft money to the national Republican Party.
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We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
