Douglas Coupland Quotes
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
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With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagonist, and if its worldview is primarily interested in the questions that crop up when coming of age, then it's a young adult novel.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
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I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.
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Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
