Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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'Blessing without good health is a crisis because you cannot enjoy it.'
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I turned down 'Cuckoo's Nest' four times before Jack got it.
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The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs.
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.
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The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
