Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
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Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
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Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.
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I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
