Douglas Coupland Quotes
I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.
Quotes to Explore
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I would never walk off any show.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 states out there that are laboratories of democracy. Why are we not empowering the states to find solutions to our problems, particularly health care, as opposed to looking to a one-size-fits-all solution from Washington, D.C.? That puzzles even me.
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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
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With us the disguise must be complete. The familiar identity of things has to be pulverized in order to destroy the finite associations with which our society increasingly enshrouds every aspect of our environment.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.
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I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.
