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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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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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.'
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I don't like to look typical.
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We've always had the sensibility that you work on the set, and you structure it, much like a play, where once you've got the lines down and blocking right, you freeze it, and then you go out and do what you're doing night after night. You want to structure something that has form and that builds the right dynamic from start to finish.
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Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
