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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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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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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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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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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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.
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I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
