Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.
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It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.
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I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
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I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
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I have major respect for Kenny Chesney and Carrie Underwood and Sugarland. They are wonderful. They're superstars in the music business.
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God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
