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 want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
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Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
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Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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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.
