Douglas Coupland Quotes
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
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I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such an appreciation for beauty and kindness that it was inherent.
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The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.
