Douglas Coupland Quotes
What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
Quotes to Explore
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.
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Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
