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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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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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
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I'm having a great life, and I want to go on having one.
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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
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I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.
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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.
