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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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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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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Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
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I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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We are already witnessing a transformation in the U.S. economy to increased production of lower carbon energy through fuel switching to natural gas and expansion of wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable non-carbon intensive energy sources.
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It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.
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In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
