Douglas Coupland Quotes
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
Quotes to Explore
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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People want leaders. Not ideologues. Not people whose life experiences have been so narrow that they've been able to maintain the purity of their youthful ideals. Not people whose principal contact with political life comes in the form of speeches and sound bites rather than decisions and responsibilities.
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Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
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I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
