Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Now that I've met you,Would you object toNever seeing each other again?'Cause I can't afford toClimb aboard you.No one's got that much ego to spend.So don't work your stuff,Because I've got troubles enough.No, don't pick on meWhen one act of kindness could beDeathly,Deathly,Definitely.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
