Douglas Coupland Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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Life seems to me essentially passion, conflict, rage... It is only intellect that keeps me sane; perhaps this makes me overvalue intellect against feeling.
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The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are so simple that with the proper cooperative action the American people collectively can easily place this wonderful country of ours in the position that it is so well qualified to hold among the nations of the world.
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
