Douglas Coupland Quotes
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
Quotes to Explore
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Political scientists don't work at banks which is a problem. As political issues become more important for the markets, analysts at banks are asked all sorts of questions they don't have the ability to answer. And if you're getting paid to answer questions as analysts at banks are you never want to be in the position of saying you don't know.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it life is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.
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Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
